This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: ...ends of St Paul's at Worms, Andernach, Bacharach, Sinzig, Bonn and Bamberg. At Limburg the gallery has square-headed, ' at Gelnhausen trefoil-headed openings. These open galleries certainly give great richness and beauty to the upper parts of the buildings where they are used, and seem to have been favourite ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: ...ends of St Paul's at Worms, Andernach, Bacharach, Sinzig, Bonn and Bamberg. At Limburg the gallery has square-headed, ' at Gelnhausen trefoil-headed openings. These open galleries certainly give great richness and beauty to the upper parts of the buildings where they are used, and seem to have been favourite decorations with the architects. They are often carried along other parts of the building besides the apse. Thus at Spires they are continued all round: at St Aposteln they run along the square part of the east end: and the octagons which occur in Romanesque and Early German buildings are often thus enriched; as at Worms, (both the octagons), at St Aposteln and St Gereon. It is also to be noted with regard to the apses of the Early German churches, that we see in them the buttress beginning to appear, though very flat and small. It has generally a triangular or gable head. See Mentz, the west end, and Bamberg, the west end. In later work the galleries are carried along the clerestory, with arches somewhat larger, and often pointed, as at Limburg and Bonn. 4. Tower 8. The Romanesque towers and those which succeeded them have at first sight a great resemblance; both consist of a number of stories with corbel tables and round-headed pannelings and openings to most of the stories. The trefoilheaded pannel as well as the round-headed one appears to occur in very early work, as for instance at St Castor and Laach. On a closer examination however it seems not impossible to find differences between the towers of the two styles. The square towers have often their sides terminated upwards by a gable, so as to make the covering a square pyramid set on diagonal-wise upon the square of the tower. In the earlier churches these gables or pediments have not acute angles...
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Publisher:
Cambridge. Printed at the Pitt Press, by John Smith, Printer to the Univ...
Published:
1835
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16851154051
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8vo, 22cm, xxvi, 235p., with 4 engraved plates including frontis with tissue guards, original fine grain maroon cloth, gilt spine title, expertly restored, some occasional slight foxing, a fine copy (Agc). -The second, and enlarged, edition of Whewell's theory of Gothic architecture first published in 1830. A prolific writer, particularly on the science of tides, William Whewell (1794-1866) was master Trinity College, Cambridge.
