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Title: The history and antiquities of the abbey church of St. Peter, Westminster : including notices and biographical memoirs of the abbots and deans of that foundation
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854 Armstrong, Cosmo Byfield, John, 1788-1841 Byrne, Elizabeth Douthitt Byrne, John, 1786-1847 Carter, James, 1798-1855 Cleghorn, John Cooke, George, 1781-1834 Le Keux, Henry, 1787-1868 Le Keux, John, 1783-1846 Lewis, J., fl. 1818-1823 Matthews, T Moses, Henry, 1782?-1870 Neale, John Preston, 1780-1847 Radclyffe, William, 1780-1855 Roffe, Robert Cabbell, d. 1839 Roffe, John, 1769-1850 Sands, Robert, 1782-1855 Scott, John, 1774-1827 Smith, W. R., fl. before 1832-1851 Taylor, William Dean, 1794-1857 Thompson, James Robert, b. ca. 1799 Tingle, James, fl. 1824-1850 Varrall, John Charles, fl. 1818-1848 Willement, Thomas, 1786-1871 Woolnoth, W. (William)
Subjects: Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey Abbots Deans, Cathedral and collegiate Architecture, Gothic Church buildings Church architecture
Publisher: London : Published by the proprietor, J.P. Neale, Bennett-Street, Blackfriars-Road and sold also by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row
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contradict it, and clearly shew that he employed the term in compliance, only, withthe corrupt phraseology of his time j which, he distinctly intimates, was introduced from Italy. Henrythe Third, says this eminent Architect, took down the greatest part of the Church, as it is recorded,to rebuild it according to the new mode, which came into fashion after the Holy war. We call thisnow the Gothic manner of building, (so the Italians called what was not after the Roman way) thoughthe Goths ivere rather destroyers than builders. I think it should rather be called the Saracex way,for those people wanted neither arts nor learning, &c. Ibid. p. 296. X Tlie proportions and general character of the West Front are illustrated in Plates XLI,XX\ III, and XVII. In the North JVest View, Plate XLI, the entire front is seen in perspective.In Plate XXVHI, the northern elevation of the north tower is exhibited j and in Plate XVII,the eastern sides of both towers are delineated with minute accuracy.
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EXTERIOR OF THE NORTH SIDE. 7 The North Side of this Church, between the west front and the transept,is supported by nine graduated buttresses, which terminate in pyramids,having- caps and finials, and from which a double tier of arched, or flying-buttresses, extend to the upper Avails of the nave. The parapet of theaisle is surmounted by battlements, nearly parallel to which, each buttresshas a turreted niche; wherein, originally, were placed full-length statuesof the founders and principal benefactors to this edifice. Four statues only,all of them either more or less damaged, are now remaining-: they oc-cupy the four westernmost buttresses, and represent Abbot Islip, Jamesthe First, and two other Sovereigns, probably, Edward the Confessor andHenry the Third. These seem to be the once elegant statues withwhich Dean Williams, as we are informed by his biographer, beautifiedthis part of the Abbey when he so liberally contributed to its repairs in thereign of the first-named King*. Betw
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