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Title: Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: Winkles, Benjamin Garland, Robert, Architect Moule, Thomas, 1784-1851
Subjects: Cathedrals Cathedrals
Publisher: London : E. Wilson and C. Tilt
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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nder shafts of early English workman-ship. These portals have plain straight canopies, under each ofwhich is a single quatrefoil panel. The division immediately abovethe portals is completely filled by five pointed windows of equalheight and breadth, divided by a single mullion into two lightseach, and a quatrefoil light at the top. These windows are alsoadorned with slender detached shafts, and the flower-like ornamentfilling up the hollow mouldings, so peculiar to this age and style.The next division contains five windows of the same description,with the outer ones lower than the next, and these again lowerthan the one in the middle, but they are all of equal breadth.Above these is the gable itself, in which are three pointed arches,the middle one pierced to light the roof. The gable has no para-pet, but a feathered coping runs along it, and forms an eleganttermination to the whole. The towers are exactly similar; theyhave good ornamented bases ; the lowest division has an arcade of
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BIPO I vim DH I 111 about 1331. The ame author suppose tin windov tlicr.it end to be ill work of the latter pun of the fourteenthcentury. i:x i BRIOR, Although this Cathedral church i- nol one of the first raairni-tude and splendour, ye1 it is a tately structure, and greatly supe-rior in all respects to many other English cathedrals, and to all the Welsh ones. Those of Carlisle, Chester, Oxford, Bristol) J:Chester, and Chichester, are all inferior to Ripon, which riveven those of Hereford, Exeter, and Worcester. Afl fir ai thewest front alone is concerned, it is superior to most, and vies with all the rest, except York, Lincoln, Peterborough, and Wells, withwhich, in this respect, no others can come into competition. Theplan is the ordinary one, of a gable between two square towers, butthe height and breadth of the west wall of the nave, are unusuallygreat, and the towers are in a continued line with it, and composea part of this very uniform and elegant facade. The lowest part ofthe

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