An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (1881)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford and London, Parker and co · leaf 196
st havebeen completed before1290. The sacristy, towhich the bursars rollsgive the positive date of1307, is certainly twentyyears later in characterthan the choir. Thetower-arches were noterected until 1330, andthe transept was not com-pleted until 1424, thetower not till 1450 ; thesewere built by… … 121. Merton College Chapel, Oxford,A.D. 1280-1290. Shewing geometrical tracery,of which is still disputed, but c The date of 1277 has long been assigned to this, because the work hasevidently been left unfinished for a long period, and this was supposedto have been caused by the sudden death of the…
Architecture, Gothic
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