Handbook of English Cathedrals: Canterbury, Peterborough, Durham, Salisbury, Lichfield, Lincoln, Ely, Wells, Winchester, Gloucester, York, London
Handbook of English Cathedrals: Canterbury, Peterborough, Durham, Salisbury, Lichfield, Lincoln, Ely, Wells, Winchester, Gloucester, York, London
Van Rensselaer, Schuyler, Mrs., 1851-1934
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Certain other great interiors I of the time are almost as plain, yet nowhere is the effect so Digitized by Google THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. MARY— SALISBURY 167 Digitized by Google Digitized by Google THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. MARY— SALISBURY 169, severely simple. We have already seen in the Nine Altars at Durham that Early English architects could lavishly adorn their work if they chose, and we shall see it often again as our journey continues. Salisbury, therefore, should be accepted] as the type of an ...Early English church chiefly with regardi to its plan and construction. The greater richness of other! examples must be borne in mind when we appraise the style- as a whole. VI The chapter-house and cloister at Salisbury, like the church itself, stand to-day as at first constructed, and date from the Early English period. They were built just after the church was finished and resemble the west front, being richer in feature and detail than the nave, against the south side of which they lie. Every cathedral chapter needed, of course, a chapter-house for its assemblings ; but only monastic houses needed cloister- walks for the daily recreation of the monks who led their lives in common.
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