Fact Versus Fiction: A Descent Among Writers on Bristol History and Biography, &cRidler, 1858 - 109 Seiten |
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Aldwin almshouse Anglo-Norman appears Archæological Institute ascertain ascribed Battle of Hastings believe belonging Berkeley Castle Bishop Bristol Bridge Bristol Cathedral Bryant built buried Castle century chantry chapel Chatterton Church of St commenced corner of High-street Dallaway death died doubt Early English edifice Edward effigy English Architecture erected evidence exterior north porch fabric fact finished founded founder gave Gothic Henry History of Bristol inner north porch kalendaries King latter Lord Berkeley Lord Robert manuscript Mary Redcliffe Mayor ment mentioned Middle Ages monastery monument nave Newton north aisle parish Pointed Arch Pointed style quoted re-edified recorded Redcliffe Church reign remarks repair river Avon Robert de Berkeley Robert Fitzharding Rowley Saxon Seyer shew Simeon of Durham Simon de Burton Sir Ferrars south aisle south transept spire statement structure style of building Thomas Thomas Chatterton tion tomb tower transept Turgot Westbury College WILLIAM BARRETT William Canynges William Wyrcestre writer
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Seite 17 - I would call the Saxon architecture. But our Norman works had a very different original. When the Goths had conquered Spain, and the genial warmth of the climate, and the religion of the old inhabitants...
Seite 63 - Bristol, desires in his will (November 21, 1382) to be buried in the chapel of the Blessed Mary, in the parish church of Cheddar : and Robert Cheddre, of Bristol (March 21, 1382), makes the same request, adding, as to the chapel,
Seite 19 - Architecture refined by the Christians, which first of all began in the East, after the Fall of the Greek Empire, by the prodigious Success of those People that adhered to Mahomet's Doctrine, who, out of Zeal to their Religion, built Mosques, Caravansaras, and Sepulchres wherever they came.
Seite 23 - There is very little doubt that the light and elegant style of building, whose principal and characteristic feature is the highpointed arch struck from two centres, was invented in this country : it is certain that it was here brought to its highest state of perfection...
Seite 19 - The Holy war gave the Christians who had been there an idea of the Saracen works ; which were afterwards by them imitated in the West : and they refined upon it every day, as they proceeded in building churches.
Seite 24 - The language, properly called English, was then formed; and an architecture founded on the Norman and Saxon, but extremely different from both, was invented by English artists: it is, surely, equally just and proper to distinguish this style by the honourable appellation of English.
Seite 20 - ... converging groins, flying buttresses, tracery tabernacles, crockets, finials, cusps, orbs, pinnacles, and spires, grew by degrees out of the simple pointed arch, between the latter end of the twelfth and the early part of the fourteenth centuries. — Secondly, that the pointed arch itself was discovered by observing the happy effect of those intersecting semi-circular arches, with which the architects of the latter end of the eleventh and the beginning of the twelfth centuries were accustomed...
Seite 74 - the same plan was observed by him in rebuilding and restoring to its original beauty, after being thrown down by lightning. The south aisle, where the mischief fell heaviest, seems to have been rebuilt with a somewhat more elevated arch, and in a lighter style than the north ; a difference also is between the windows of the north and south...
Seite 23 - Gothic should not be used in speaking of the architecture of England, from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. The term tends to give false ideas on the subject, and originates with the Italian writers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; who applied the expression of ' I& Maniera Gotica/ in contempt to all the works of art of the middle ages. " From these writers it was borrowed by Sir Christopher' Wren, the first English writer who has applied it to English architecture.
Seite 73 - the said church having suffered much in a tempest, the above-mentioned William Canynge, a celebrated merchant and public benefactor, in the year 1474,* gave five hundred pounds to the parishioners of Redcliffe, towards repairing the church, and for the maintenance of two chaplains, and two clerks in St. Mary's chapel there, and of two chantry priests.