Gothic architecture in England : an analysis of the origin & development of English church architecture from the Norman conquest to the dissolution of the monasteries (1906)
Bond, Francis, d. 1918 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 440
the aisles now rise as high as the nave, there can be no clerestory lighting. All the side-light must be derived from the aisle windows. But since, ex hypotkesi, we have made the aisles as lofty as the nave, there is room in the aisle-walls for very tall windows ; and the church will be flooded… … Hospital of St Jean, and the Church of St Serge, Angers. It is also a special characteristic of much German Gothic ; e.g. Marburg, Wetzlar, Minden, Soest, Landshut, Thorn, Munster. In England an early and important example is the choir of the TEMPLE CHURCH (35-1), London, finished in 1240. Here the…
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