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Title: An essay on the history of English church architecture prior to the separation of England from the Roman obedience
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Scott, G. Gilbert (George Gilbert), 1839-1897
Subjects: Church architecture Church architecture
Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall and co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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the pier-arches below it, or with the clerestory above. Thework was interrupted before thetriforium was completed, andthe nave was roofed in, in a temporary manner, above thepier-arches, leaving the unfinished stage above it exposed.It so continued until the work was resumed in the next century,and the whole roofed in at the proper level. Indications otthe same sort may be observed in the church of Melbournein Derbyshire, and in many other instances. PP Of course, a drawing more or less complete of the wholevault must have been prepared before a stone of its springerscould be set. It is possible that it is this design of Wolrichs,or a copy of it, to which the executors of Henry VII. referin the indenture of 1512, in which the provost and scholarsagree without delay to vawte the church of the saide collegeafter the fourme of a platte t her for devised (Cf. Carter, Kings Coll. Chapel, p. 23.) As far as the western sides of the sixth pier north andof the seventh pier south. PLATE XXXVI1.
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THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE. state of the work when it came to a stop for thesecond time, about the year 1484. In 1508, Henry VII., finding that his Hfe wasdrawing to a close, presented the sum of ^(^^iOqo,equivalent to some;^6o,ooo of our money, towardsthe completion of his uncles great work. Thesurveyor of the works was Thomas Larke, arch-deacon of Norwich, but the name of the architecthas not been preserved. This is of the less im-portance, as though the work of this third and lastperiod presents many innovations in point of detailupon that of the two preceding architects, yet noalteration was made in the design itself, which wascompleted in accordance to the plans of 1480. The work of Henry VII. and of his son, isdistinguished by the introduction in profusion ofheraldic badges and achievements. These are tobe found—in exact accord with the account alreadygiven of the extent of the work of the secondperiod—throughout the ante-church, from theseventh buttress (fro

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