English Cathedrals Illustrated

English Cathedrals Illustrated - Second and Revised Edition

SOUTHWELL CHOIR SCREEN. The following pages are an attempt to make the study of the English cathedrals more interesting. Every ancient building has a life-history of its own, and should be studied biographically. But open a guide-book, or visit the different portions of a cathedral (Winchester, for example,) in the regulation order, and what you read of or see will probably be, first, what was done in the nave in the latter part of the fourteenth and in the fifteenth century; then the work done in the crossing in the twelfth century; then work done in the transepts in the eleventh century; then the work in the choir in the first half of the fourteenth century; then the work done in the retro-choir early in the thirteenth century; finally, sixteenth-century work in the Lady chapel. To the reader this hop, skip, and jump methodif it deserves to be called a methodis simply maddening. For the visitor it has one merit, and one merit only: it saves his legs. I do not propose to save the visitors legs; I must candidly confess that the biographical method[vi] of studying a cathedral involves a certain amount of marching and countermarching. But I venture to hope that there are some visitors who will not be deterred by a little additional bodily fatigue from studying the cathedrals aright. With what horror a reader would study a biography of the Great Duke which commenced with the Peninsular War, then described his school-days at Eton, followed these up by the battle of Waterloo, digressed into a description of his childhood and ancestry, described his career as a Tory Prime Minister, and wound up with his campaigns in India! Yet that is how the English cathedrals are studied. SOUTHWELL CHOIR. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 63739
Author: Bond, Francis
Release Date: Nov 14, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English