Medieval Church Architecture by Jon Cannon

Author:Jon Cannon
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Medieval Church Architecture
ISBN: 9780747815327
Publisher: Osprey Publishing

Positioned beneath steep, crocketed gables, these nodding ogees on the outer north porch at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol (probably c. 1320), give the surface of the structure a swaying, rippling, organic quality; large, brightly painted statues once stood beneath each such arch.

A lavish Geometrical Decorated window at Leominster Priory, Herefordshire, usually dated to the 1320s. The underlying idea of circlets separated by sub-arches is derived from that of early bar tracery, but an extra light separates the sub-arches from each other, and the circlets are filled with complex patterns of cusped stars and triangles. Ballflower covers everything.

Rose window-like designs often fill the main roundel of a window; though pure rose windows – circular windows filled with tracery – are rare in England, and most (but not all) examples are Early English in date (circular windows without tracery, oculi, tend to be small and are usually Anglo-Saxon or Romanesque; or, with simple cusped patterns in them, Decorated).

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