The cathedral church of Chichester; a short history & description of its fabric with an account of the diocese and see . iforium gal-lery, above the transverse archesof the aisles, were other semi-circular arches. These serveda double purpose : they acted assupports to the timber frame-work of the aisle roofs, and alsoas a means of buttressing theupper part of the nave wallingin which the clerestory windowswere placed. Such other but-tresses as there had been werebroad and flat, with but littleprojection from the surface ofthe wall. The windows through-out the building up to aboutthe end of th
The cathedral church of Chichester; a short history & description of its fabric with an account of the diocese and see . iforium gal-lery, above the transverse archesof the aisles, were other semi-circular arches. These serveda double purpose : they acted assupports to the timber frame-work of the aisle roofs, and alsoas a means of buttressing theupper part of the nave wallingin which the clerestory windowswere placed. Such other but-tresses as there had been werebroad and flat, with but littleprojection from the surface ofthe wall. The windows through-out the building up to aboutthe end of the twelfth century were small in comparison withsome of those which were inserted at various times afterwards. It has been remarked that the termination of the earlychancel towards the east was an apse, and that round thiswas carried the north and south choir aisles in the form ofa continuous ambulatory. From this enclosing aisle—a semi-circle itself in form—three chapels were projected, each witha semicircular apsidal termination. The central one of thethree was the lady-chapel. This consisted then of the three. From a photograph by Mr. F. Bond. VIEW THROUGH THE SOUTHTRIFORIUM OF THE NAVEFROM THE SOUTH-WESTTOWER. lo CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL. western bays only of the present chapel. The lady-chapelwas added about eighty years after the early part of the navehad been built, and has since been much altered. The presence of this grouping of features is indicative ofthat influence which Continental architecture had exercisedupon English art, and now that Norman government hadbeen established that influence became more directly though so strongly affected by this means, Anglo-Saxoncharacter was always evident in work which was a nativeexpression of the thought and personality of those by whomit was executed. Thus we see that the plan which Ralph approved for thenew church that was to be built for him at Chichester wasdevised according to accepted traditional arrangement. H
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