The mouldings of the six periods of British architecture from the Conquest to the Reformation

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THE MOULDINGS

OF THE

SIX PERIODS

OF

BRITISH ARCHITECTURE

FROM

THE CONQUEST TO THE REFORMATION.

BY EDMUND SHARPE, M.A., F.R.I.B.A.

HonHon :
E. & F. N. SPON, CHARING CROSS.

S. BIRBECK, BIRMINGHAM.

HA

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PREFACE.

PIIOFESSOR WILLIS was the first to apply Colour to the ground-plans of churches, for
the purpose of indicating the different Periods of their construction. lie applied his
colours indiscriminately, and simply with a view to distinguish one part of a building
from, another.

It appeared to me, some time ago, that this use of colour might be usefully
carried a point further, by attaching a fixed signification to the employment of
different colours, and by causing a specific colour always to represent a specific
Period of Architecture ; and that no better basis could, in fact, be taken for such an
application of colour than the Prismatic Spectrum itself, which, in a two-fold sense,
is peculiarly adapted to represent the gradual progress of Art in the buildings of the
Middle Ages ; first, because, as in the Prismatic Spectrum it is difficult to say where
one colour ends and another begins, so in Church Architecture the course of transi-
tion was so regular and so gradual as to be almost imperceptible, and such as to render
it difficult for us to draw any exact line of demarcation between the buildings of
one style and those of another, or to permit us to say precisely, for example,
where Norman Art ends, and where English Art begins ; yet, inasmuch as we are
obliged, for descriptive purposes, to call certain portions of that blended whole blue,
green, yellow, and red, so are we, for the same reason, under the necessity of selecting
and characterising in the same manner certain portions of the history of this con-
tinuous art, and of designating these parts by some such specific terms as those above
proposed ; and, in the second place, this adaptation of the Prismatic Spectrum to
our wants in this respect appears to me to be a peculiarly happy one, inasmuch as our
National Architecture, rising out of the deep gloom of debased Pagan art in the dark

age of barbarous invasion, is thus fitly represented as brightening gradually into the
glory and refulgence of Christian Art in the Geometrical Period of the thirteenth
century, and as deepening again in its descent through the three following centuries,
into the dark age of Pagan revival in the seventeenth.

I have, therefore, already for some time, for my own purposes, made use of the
following selection of colours to indicate, on the ground plans of churches, the
particular dates of the construction of their different parts ; a mode of illustration
which seems to recommend itself as particularly adapted to the subjects presented in
the following pages.

In the selection, then, of the colours in which the Mouldings of the different
Periods are printed in this work, the same sequence has been adopted as that in
which they occur in the Prismatic Spectrum ; so that a given colour not only indicates
the Period to which the Moulding belongs, but also the relative historical position of
the Period itself, as shown in the Plate which faces the Title Page.

Thus ;

A.D. TO A.D.

Black represents the NORMAN PERIOD . . . 1066—1145.

Bine „ TRANSITIONAL „ ... 1145—1190.

Green „ LANCET „ ... 1190—1245.

Yellow „ GEOMETRICAL „ ... 1245—1315.

Bed „ CURVILINEAR „ ... 1315—1360.

Crimson „ RECTILINEAR „ ... 1360—1550.

TllE HlGHEE GliEATES, LANCASTER.

May 1st, 1871.

CONTENTS.

PART I.
PART II.
PART HI. -

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
HORIZONTAL MOULDINGS.
VERTICAL MOULDINGS.

PART I.

ARCHED MOULDINGS.

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER-ARCHES.

NORMAN c IO90.

B

B

L_

J6 real size.

WORCESTER CATHEDRAL
S. TRANSEPT. E. CHAPEL

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER-ARCHES.

NORMAN C.IIOO.

I'blU-

& real size

GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL
NAVE. G-STORY.

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER-ARCHES.

NORMAN C- IIOO

Bl

Ya real
SOUTHWELL MINSTER

NAVE G. STORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER-ARCHES.

NORMAN C.IIIO.

I'lntc

/6real size

CHESTER ST JOHNJS CHURCH.
CHOIR G-STORY

uncu WUULUINUo.
PIER-AR C HES.

NORMAN C 1117

real size
PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL.

CHOIR C STORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PI ER- ARC HES.

NORMAN C 1130.

I'lnt.

% reaJ size.
NEW SHOREHAM CHURCH.

NAVE C. STORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER-ARCHES

TRANSITIONAL

!•«.•;) I si/.c

NEW SHORE HAM.

CHOIR C STORY N SIDE.

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER-ARCHES.

TRANSITIONAL C II7O

1 ; rcii 1 sixc.

NEW SHOREHAM

CHOIR G STORY S SIDE

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER- ARCHES

TRANSITIONAL C II7O

y» rt-nl
SELBY ABBEY CHURCH.

NAVE 0 STORY

TRANSITIONAL C II7O

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER-ARCHES

I'h.ti-

B

rr:il si/

SELBY ABBEY CHURCH.

NAVE B STORY S SIDE

TRANSITIONAL C II7O.

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER -ARCHES

B

Va real -Ji/i'
SELBY ABBEY CHURCH

NAVE B STORY ^"

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER-ARCHES.

TRANSITIONAL C 1170

si/.r
ST DAVIDS CATHEDRAL

CHOIR C STORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER-ARCHES.

TRANSITIONAL C II7O

rr:il si/.tv

ST DAVID'S CATHEDRAL

NAVE G STORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIE R- ARCHES.

TRANSITIONAL C II7O.

;il sr/.c

ST DAVID'S CATHEDRAL.
NAVE G STORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER-ARCHES.

TRANSITIONAL C. II7O

Plsilr

B

y$ real s \7,e
ABBEY DORE

NAVE G STORY.

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER -ARCHES

TRANSITIONAL C 1170

FURNESS ABBEY CHURCH

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER-ARCHES

TRANSITIONAL C 1180

'.•;» mil s

TYNEMOUTH PRIORY CHURCH.

CHOIR G STORY

TRANSITIONAL C ,180

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PITR-ARCHES.

I'l.-il,

M'lll sl/.l'

WELLS CATH E ORAL

NAVE G STORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER- ARCHES

TRANSITIONAL C 1186

fh.lr

D

ill size.
CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL.

PRESBYTERY C STORY.

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER-ARCHES

TRANSITIONAL C 1186

I'l.'ltr

I

si/ 1-
CH1CHESTER CATHEDRAL

PRESBYTERY B STORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER-ARCHES.

LANCET c II9O.

IMiit.-

^ real size.
LINCOLN CATHEDRAL.

CHOIR G STORY.

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER- ARCHES.

LANCET c. II9O

1'lnlc

J&reaJ size
LINCOLN CATHEDRAL

CHOIR B STORY

\

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER-ARCHES.

LANCET C II9O

fl.lt.'

7&real size.

H E X H A M

NAVE G STORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER-ARCHES.

LANCET C. 1195

IM.,1,

y& real size.
JERVAULX ABBEY CHURCH.

NAVE G STORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER- ARCHES.

LANCET C 1205.

Plot.'

y» real size. ,
CARLISLE CATHEDRAL.

CHOIR C. STORY.

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PI E R- AH CUES.

LANCET C 1205

PI ,1,

S ri'iil si/.c

WORCESTER CATHEDRAL

PRESBYTERY O - STORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER-ARCHES.

LANCET C I2IO

I'lntr

}6 real si 7.0
WHITBY ABBEY CHURCH.

NAVE 0 STORY.

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER- ARCHES.

LANCET C I2IO.

Phili-

Jv> ri-ul si'/.t-
WHITBY ABBEY CHURCH,

NAVE B STORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER- ARCHES.

LANCET C I22O

Plat.

real si/.c
LINCOLN CATHEDRAL

NAVE G STORY.

K»U Ere' bt!i Loa =

LANCET c 1220

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER-ARCHES.

Plat.

y^ ren.l si7.c
LINCOLN CATHEDRAL.

NAVE B STORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER- ARCHES

C I2JO.

PI:, I.

! , real si/.f

WORCESTER CATHEDRAL
CHOIR G STORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER- ARCHES.

LANCET c 1235

Plf.li

'., !•<•:! 1 s l/.r
ELY CATHEDRAL.
CHOI R G. STORY

-

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER- ARCHES.

GEOMETRICAL.

Ph.lc

LINCOLN CATHEDRAL
PRESBYTERY. G-5TORY.

-

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER-ARCHES

OtOMETRICALC 1256

y» real size.
LINCOLN CATHEDRAL
PRESBYTERY. B STORY.

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER-ARCHES.

6EOMETRICALC I16O.

Plate

siie
HEREFORD CATHEDRAL

METRICAL C 1265.

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PI ER- ARCHES.

I'h.l,

YORK-ST MARYS ABB.EY CH

NAVE.G- STORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER-ARCHES.

GEOMETRICAL C I27O

1'lnU;

ft. real size

CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL
NAVE-N CHAPEL, 0-STORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER- ARCHES

GEOMETRICAL c 1275.

fa r«-aJ si

GLASGOW CATHEDRAL
CHCMR G STORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER- ARCHES.

GEOMETRICAL C 1275.

Plate

rcn] si7.t>
GLASGOW CATHEDRAL
LADY CHAPEL.C-STORY.

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER-ARCHES-.

GEOMETRICAL C 1275

LICHMELD CATHEDRAL
NAVE.G-STORY

Untu rvr uu uu i n
PIE R- ARCHES.

5EOMETRICALC I28O

CHESTER CATHEDRAL
CHOIR PIER ARCHES

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER-ARCHES.

GEOMETRICAL C 1285.

I'hlUr

size.

BRIDLINGTON PRIORY CHURCH.
NAVE B. STORY.

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER-ARCHES.

GEOMETRICAL C I29O

Chile

ze

&ELBY ABBEY CHURCH
CHOIR. C-STORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER-ARCHES.

GUISBOROUGH PRIORY CHURCH

r nr> i R r. - STOP v

.tkU&B

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER-ARCHES.

CURVILINEAR C.I3I5

IMnlc-

B

^s real size

HOWDEN CHURCH
CHOIR, Q-STORY.

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER-ARCHES

CURVILINEAR C 1315

rim.-

y» peal size
EXETER CATHEDRAL.

.u. Loo

PIER-ARCHES.

CURVILINEAR C 1115

Flute

srae

EXETER CATHEDRAL.
CHOIR, G-STORY.

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER-ARCHES.

[VILINEAR. C !320

YS, i-eal size

WORCESTER CATHEDRAL
NAVE G- STORY

•-

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER-ARCHES

CURVILINEAR C I32O

' A

sute

BEVERLEY-ST MARYS CH.
CHOIR. G-STORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER- ARCHES.

CURVILINEAR C 1320.

Plate

% real size

SELBY ABBEY CHURCH
N TRANSEPT 0 STORY.

-

CURVILINEAR AD 1322

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER-ARCHES.

Plate

% real size
ELY CATHEDRAL
CHOIR G-STORY.

,-•.". Bro' U

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER-ARCHES.

CURVILINEAR C 1330

y& Will SI/,1'

LICH Fl ELD CATHEDRAL

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER-ARCHES.

CURVILINEAR C fb4O

PI ule

% real size

HULL TRINITY CHURCH

CHOIR C-STORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER-ARCHES.

CURVILINEAR C

Plate

}fc real sire.

WELLS CATHEDRAL

CHOIR.G-STORY.

I«, Br.1 .

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER-ARCHES.

RECTILINEAR C 1370.

Plnt<

/a real size.
WORCESTER CATHEDRAL

NAVE. G- STORY S

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER-ARCHES.

RECTILINEAR C :370.

Pl:ttf

yb reaJ size
HULL-TRINITY CH

NAVE «rSTORY

ARCHED MOULDINGS.
PIER-ARCHES.

RECTILINEAR C I38O

Plait-

B

sze

LANCASTER ST MARY'S CH
NAVE. G-STORY.

ARCHED MOULDINGS
P I E R - A R C H E S .

RECTILINEAR C IJ3O

I'hltf

% real size
NEWARK.

NAVE AND CHOIR, 0-STORY.

ARCHED MOULDINGS
PIER-ARC HES.

RECTILINEAR C I4-OO

I'lnlc

II

J4 real size.

COVENTRY_ST MICHAEL'S CHURCH.
TOWER G-STORY.

ARCHED MOULDINGS

PIER-ARCHES-

RECTILINEAR C I+OO

1'lati-

sze

BEVERLEY ST MARY'S CH
NAVE.G-STORY

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