a great hallwithout central point or leading lines as at Notre Dame orBourges, has given way to that of a large open choir withcircling chapels. Yet as a mere piece of planning there is ashortness and heaviness about the nave which is verystriking if a visitor enters, as is usual, for the first… … THE ENGLISH CATHEDRAL 51 as compared willi the English church. Amiens also hasentirely lost the efiect of a cross-planned church, and thouy:hin Early Eng-lish Salisbury the enormously loni^ Normannave has become shorter, yet the main impression willobviously be one of broad masses of light and…
Church architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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