60. LINCOLN CATHEDRAL. PLAN
61. LINCOLN CATHEDRAL. WEST FRONT
The lantern-tower at the intersection of the western transept, which had fallen in 1235, was either rebuilt or finished by Bishop Grossetête about 1240. In its general outline and in detail it recalls the great lantern-tower of Coutances in Normandy, which seems also to have served as model for that of St. Ouen at Rouen in the fourteenth century.
The vast and magnificent Cathedral of Lincoln is an admirable subject for comparative study. Its architecture combines most strikingly the characteristics of the two nations. It blends in one harmonious whole the massive solidity of English structure overlaid with detail, formed by lines vertical, rigid, dry, and hard as iron, and the mingled grace and strength of French architecture, which may fitly be compared with gold, in its union of the supple and the durable, of solidity and power of resistance equal to those of the less precious metal, with an adaptability to artistic ends far greater.
62. LINCOLN CATHEDRAL. TRANSEPT
63. LINCOLN CATHEDRAL. APSE AND CHAPTER-HOUSE