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Title: The cathedral builders in England
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Prior, Edward S. (Edward Schröder), 1852-1932
Subjects: Cathedrals Architects
Publisher: London, Seeley and Co., Limited New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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roman-tic sunny art of Exeter. At Selby and at Exeter the building and itsdecoration go together: one expression makes their quality. Thepeculiarity of the western art is the absence of this combined expressionand the emergence therein of the mason-builder, whose intention ofconstruction was independent of the finishing and furnishing arts. The great variety developed in the fourteenth-century styles ofthe mason had several curious instances in the west. For example,there was building beside Exeter Cathedral, at the expense of the sameBishop Grandisson, the strangely different quire of Ottery St. Mary :at Tewkesbury the broad romantic style of its quire rebuilding wasfollowed by a quite different art of lean stone carpentry in its monu-ments : at Gloucester there are the same quick successions, the aisleof 1325 with the full round manner and ball-flower garnishing of themid-England masons, and then immediately the stone scaffolding andpanelled constructions of the transept and quire.
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Ckhup ok Tiisnois. Iloiii ,1 /\S.-I/./_£ A of I In eai-ly FiiUnilh Cniliiiy. r.iiliJi MiiMiiiii, A,Id. J/.S.V. 2i.)704. OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURT 79 Now in these cases the latter styles mentioned, while each is sodifferent from the former, show themselves to have a family likeness,and the home of their methods can be traced to Bristol. In AbbotKnowles rebuilding of the Augustinian quire, begun c. 1300, hismasons showed peculiar constructional devices in the support of thevault by skeleton arches, and methods of constructional ornament inthe traceries and niches. At Wells we can follow these clever Bristolconstructionists being called in to save the tower, c. 1328, and buildingtheir skeleton arches for the crossing. I think, too, that the Richardof Farleigh called to superintend the building of SaHsbury spire wasof the same craft, since he had work too at Bath and Reading. Thenthe reconstruction of the quire at Wells and the buildings at OtterySt. Mary show further progress in the sch

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