. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. CATHEDRAL AT PETERBORO, NORTllANTS, ENGLAND, FAN VAULTING OF CHOIR XXXIV. English Florid Gothic and Fan-Vaulting ments of this fan-vaulting are Chapel at Windsor Castle, theChapel of Henry VII, attached to West-minster Abbey in London, and chief andnoblest of all. Kings College Chapel atCambridge. This last may well be thoughtthe finest interior in England ; and the otherexamples mentioned are inferior in charm :and yet, since the Cambridge Chapel hasbeen shown in photography very often, itha
. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. CATHEDRAL AT PETERBORO, NORTllANTS, ENGLAND, FAN VAULTING OF CHOIR XXXIV. English Florid Gothic and Fan-Vaulting ments of this fan-vaulting are Chapel at Windsor Castle, theChapel of Henry VII, attached to West-minster Abbey in London, and chief andnoblest of all. Kings College Chapel atCambridge. This last may well be thoughtthe finest interior in England ; and the otherexamples mentioned are inferior in charm :and yet, since the Cambridge Chapel hasbeen shown in photography very often, ithas seemed better to consider here less-known examples. The vault is a perfectlysafe building, especially on a small scale,but it is not rib-vaulting. When, however,the great vault of Henry the SeventhsChapel at Westminster Abbey was under-taken, about 1515, a different system hadto be followed. The span or clear widthof the nave is not very great and yet thetask of supporting the astonishing stoneroof, seen in Plate XXXV, was one worthyof the shrewdest and most daring builder
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