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illustrated by the presbytery of Lincoln, 154, and the nave of Lichfield, 156; decorative motives frequently govern the employment of structural members, 155; the piers and buttresses never structurally complete and functional, 157; character of the wall openings, 157; east ends generally square, 158; façades, 160-165; have little approach to Gothic character, 165; towers, 165-166; general provision for a tower at crossing of nave and transept, 165; spires rare in the early period, 166; general plan and proportions of chs., 167; enormous length, 167; vaulted polygonal chapter-houses, 168; absence of vaulting in the smaller village chs., 169; substantially only a decorative modification of Norman Romanesque, 169; profiles of mouldings, 224-239; capitals, 224-232; bases, 232-235; string-courses, 235; corbel table, 235; arch mouldings, 236; rib profiles, 238; probable reaction on the art of the Continent, 238; compared with French Gothic as to mouldings of various kinds, 239; lightness and multiplicity of parts regarded as an end in itself, 239.

See also Sculpture, English.

English profiles, 224-239.

English sculpture, 284-292.

English writers on Gothic architecture, 3.

Expression in art, usually superior in the earlier masters of a school, 256; the chief motive of Gothic sculpture, 264.

Exterior, of French Gothic churches, 117-121; the general proportions criticised, 119; examples, the abbey ch. of St. Leu d'Esserent, 119 (cut), the cath. of Reims, 121 (cut).

Of English churches, 153.


Façades, Gothic, constructive principles least manifest in, 103; analysis of, 103; a modification of Romanesque forms, 108; the chief field for the display of sculpture, 259;—of the cath. of Amiens, 108, in (cut); the Abbaye-aux-Hommes at Caen, 104, 105 (cut);—cath. of Paris, 108 (cut); Reims, no; ch. of St. Denis, 106.; cath. of Senlis, 106, 107 (cut);—ch. of Vaux-sous-Laon, 104 (cut).
Of English chs., 162-165; few early ones remain, 162; have but little Gothic character, 165;—of Lincoln cath., 162 (cut), 284; compared with Pisa, 162;—Peterborough, 165;—Ripon, 165; Salisbury, 164;—Wells, 164, 285.
German, 178-179, 293.
Italian, have little regard to the form of the building, 189; of the cath. of Pisa, 162.
Of the cath. of Burgos, 199.
Of transepts. See Transept façades.

Fan vaulting, the first step toward, 144.

Fergusson, on Cologne Cathedral, 176.

Flaxman, on the sculpture of Wells, 247.

Florence, Basilica of San Miniato, roof, 41.

Cathedral, plan and vaulting system, 186; want of true capitals or bases to the piers, 187, 188 (cut); vaulting arches all spring from the same level, 187; hood mouldings a survival of Roman style, 187; Arnolfo's original design, 188; the east end has no Gothic character, 188, 191; transept ends, 186, 191; tower, 192; capitals, 188 (cut), 244; base profiles, 245 (cut); arch mouldings, 245; ribs, 245; cornice, 245; sculptures of the campanile, 294, 296, of the door jambs, 296, of the baptistery gates, 296.
Church of Sta. Croce, interior, 185; roofs of the aisles, 185; vault of the apse, 1 86; buttresses, 186; façade, 189; east end, 191; windows, 193, 194 (cut); capitals, 243; base profiles, 245 (cut); arch mouldings, 245; frescoes, 308.
Church of Sta. Maria del Carmine, frescoes, 308. :Church of Sta. Maria Novella, vaulting system, 182-185 (cuts); transept ends, 191; tower, 192 (cut); capitals, 243 (cut); base profiles, 244 (cut); paintings, 308.
Church of Or San Michele, windows, 193.
Spanish chapel, frescoes, 308.

Flying butresses. See Buttresses, flying.

Fontevrault, 195.

Form and expression in art, 257.

Fountains Abbey, nave, 127; vaulting of the aisles, 127, 128 (cut).

France, artificial state of society at close of 13th cent., 2; conditions under which architecture was practised, 282, 310; the Communes, 311; Abbot Haymon on the popular enthusiasm, 312.

Freiburg, cathedral, imperfect Gothic character, 174; spire, 181.

French architecture, 32-123; great activity of, in the I2th cent., 121; of the Renaissance, 2.

French Gothic architecture. See Gothic architecture.

French sculpture, 247-283.

French writers on Gothic architecture, 5.

Frescoes. See Painting.