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Gothic architecture in England and France (1911)

West, George Herbert · London, G. Bell · leaf 184

An illustration from Gothic architecture in England and France, 1911, leaf 184
GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL CHOIR, 1360 Showing- the transformation from Norman to Perpendicular, the complicated Heme vault,and the immense East window. 146 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE Removini; the insignificant Norman clerestory they re-placed it by a row of windows so immense that they form … [G. H. \V. CIRENCESTER one continuous screen of glass interrupted only by the vault-ing shafts. But not content with that they pulled down thewhole east end and put up the largest window in the world,one which is actually wider than the central aisle of the choir, WINDOW TRACERY 147 five stories of…

Church architecture · Architecture, Gothic

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