The Cathedral Church Of England

Text extracted from opening pages of book: ESSAYS ON ARCHITECTU. RAI, II THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ENGLAND BY WILLIAM BURNET TUTHILL, M. A. ARCHITECT flew ) orfc THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1923 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATUS OK AMERICA COPYRIGHT, 192 j, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY tiet up and printed. Published' A] ) H1, 1 TO EVERY LOVER OF ARCHITECTURAL ART A NOTE TO THE READER The author wishes to make but one prefatory note and that is in reference to the arrangement of the illustrations in their relation to the text. As stated in the writing, each general division of the illustrations such as general views, west fronts, etc. are set in an approximately correct chrono logical order, and so have a teaching value in connection with the historical development of the English cathedral system. By the nature of the case, the text cannot follow the illustrations when it continually refers and cross-refers to them. This may entail some slowness in the reading and may be more or less disagreeable at first, but as these references are purely for a studential purpose, they result in giving clearness to the exposition, as they are informative and instructive for the purpose sought, and will ultimately be a pleasure rather than a tedium. W. B. T. CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION i GENERAL STUDY OF THE CATHEDRAL STRUC TURES 6 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CATHEDRAL STRUC TURES 12 THE ARCHITECTURAL PERIODS .... 24 THE: ESSENTIAL PARTS OF THE CATHEDRAL STRUCTURES 36 CHURCH AT IONA .' 53 CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL 56 GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL 70 DURHAM CATHEDRAL .80 NORWICH CATHEDRAL 90 HEREFORD CATHEDRAL 96 ELY CATHEDRAL 98 PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL in LINCOLN CATHEDRAL 117 LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL 130 SALISBURY CATHEDRAL 139 WELLS CATHEDRAL154 YORK CATHEDRAL 158 EXETER CATHEDRAL . 168 CATHEDRALS NOT INCLUDED IN THE WORK . 174 PLANS 178-183 TABLE OF LENGTHS OF CATHEDRALS . . 184 DIAGRAM OF LENGTHS 185 DIAGRAM OF HEIGHTS 186 CLOISTERS 187 CHAPTER HOUSES 188 LADY CHAPELS 189 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ENGLAND THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ENGLAND FROUDE, beginning his essay on the Dissolution of the Monasteries, writes this sentence To be entirely just in our estimate of' other ages is not difficult it is impossible. The mind as well as the eye adds something of its own, before an image of the clearest object can be painted on it. It is the same with a study of a very specialized and complete period of archi tecture, finished long ago and under social, political, and financial conditions of which one who is not a fairly close student of its history has little com prehension. Many of its concrete evi dences remain, may be examined or measured or photographed, and a knowl edge gained of what was actually done; but. it is quite impossible to enter wholly