The Cathedral Builders in England (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Cathedral Builders in England The Transitional style, in which the birth of Gothic art stands revealed, came coincidentally with the foundations of a new monastic era -that of the reformed orders - and also with the growing in¿uence Of the Bishops. Our English cathedrals give us good examples, for though most churches of the Regular Canons and of the Cistercians remain only in ruin, we have three cathedrals showing the essentially native sources of our English Gothic art. At Wells Bishop Reginald's church is a thoroughly English example, Canterbury quire, both by Gervase's contemporary account of its building and by its own Significant archi tecture, gives us the exact measure of the French importation and of the contemporary English style, as each was built under its successive master masons, William of Sens and William the Englishman. And Ripon cathedral, if less extensive, has its Special importance as a canon's church and example of the north-country style, which had such vigorous expression in the reformed building Of the lands north of Humber. Finally at Chichester, Winchester, Ely and Lincoln were works of full English Gothic, achieved before 1208 when the Pope's Interdict of England made a pause in religious building. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.