Lectures on the rise and development of medieval architecture vol. 2

Lectures on the rise and development of medieval architecture; vol. 2

Review of the developments in the early Architecture of our own landRecent research in Central SyriaExamples in Northern Europe previous to the eleventh centuryEarly remains in Scotland and IrelandAnglo-Saxon ArchitectureChurches founded by St. AugustineCanterbury and YorkChurches at Hexham and RiponRamsey AbbeyWinchester CathedralDestruction of Churches by SweynRestoration and building by CanuteRoman modelsCharacteristics of Anglo-Saxon workBrixworth Church, Northamptonshire Church on the Castlehill, DoverWorth Church, SussexBradford Church, WiltsChancel of Saxon Church at Jarrow-on-the-TyneChurches of Monk Wearmouth and StowCrypts at Wing, Repton, and LastinghamTowers of St. Benets, Cambridge: Trinity Church, Colchester: Earls Barton: Barnach: Barton-on-Humber: Sompting, Sussex: and Clapham, BedfordshireChapel at Greensted, EssexClassification into periods of this form of Architecture. IN commencing a series of lectures in my capacity as the official occupant of this professorial chair, I feel in some degree shackled by the circumstance that, though the office is new to me, its duties (so far as the lectures go) are not so: inasmuch as, during the latter years of the tenure of this office by our venerated Professor Cockerell, I was, in conjunction with Mr. Smirke, called upon to occupy the place from which ill-health and infirmity compelled him to be absent; and at a later time I have done the same for my immediate predecessor, Mr. Smirke, when circumstances inter{2}fered, for one season, with his lectures. I have, consequently, already given nine lectures from this chair without being its rightful occupant; and, now that I commence officially, I find the novelty of anything I might have had to say in a great degree worn off by anticipation. I have consequently been puzzled whether to begin afresh or to go on from the point I had reached. The former would, perhaps, be the most correct course; but, after long uncertainty, I feel it to be too artificial to sever what I said out of office from what I have to say in office, and I have determined to link my future lectures on to those which have preceded them. I shall also for the present limit myself to Medival architecture as the subject on which I have been engaged. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 61646
Author: Scott, George Gilbert
Release Date: Mar 21, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English