PROCEEDINGS OF THE ARCHÆOLOGICAL INSTITUTE AT NORWICH, 1847. 8vo., cloth, 10s. 6d.
FOOTNOTES:
[A] Abécédaire, ou Rudiment D’Archeologie, par M. de Caumont, fondateur des Congrès Scientifiques de France, etc. (Caen, 1850, 8vo.)
[B] There is some doubt on this subject; the opinion here stated is that generally received, but recent observations seem to shew that the Saxons were more advanced than the Normans at the time of the Conquest; their work was more highly finished, had more ornament, and they used fine-jointed masonry, while the Normans used wide-jointed, but the Norman buildings were more substantial, and on a larger scale; everywhere the cathedrals were rebuilt after the Conquest.
[C] This is recorded in the Bulletin Monumental of the period, and in the Abécédaire of M. de Caumont.
[D] Sometimes called the scroll molding, but roll is the correct term, from the close resemblance to a roll of parchment with the edge overlapping.
[E] The wooden groined vaults of Chester Cathedral were carefully restored in 1871-72, with excellent effect, and in very good taste.
[F] It should be noticed that fan-tracery vaulting is peculiarly English, the principle of it began with the earliest English Gothic style, as in the cloisters of Lincoln Cathedral, each stone of the vaulting being cut to fit its place. In France this is never done, each block of stone is oblong, as in those for the walls, and is only made to curve over in a vault by the mortar between the joints. This had the effect of making vaulting much cheaper to construct, and therefore much more abundant in France than in England, but it is always less scientific and often less beautiful; good French architects, with the late M. Viollet-le-Duc, much admired the English vaulting.
[G] A curious example of Elizabethan work occurs at Sunningwell Church, within a few miles of Oxford, where there is a singular polygonal porch at the west end, being a mixture of Ionic columns and Gothic windows. There is also some good woodwork of the same period. The church was chiefly rebuilt by Bishop Jewel.
[H] By a curious coincidence, the old Congregation-house, on the north side of the chancel of St. Mary’s Church, has been converted into the “Chapel for the Unattached Students.”