British Isles Gothic

Norman Gothic

This style was characterized by semi-circular arched windows

Transitional Gothic

This style was characterized by the introduction of pointed arches replacing the round.

Early English Gothic

Lancet or First Pointed Style

This style was characterized by long, pointed, narrow, lancet windows

Decorated Gothic

Second Pointed, Geometrical or Curvilinear

This style was characterized by fanciful window tracery and divided into two periods namely:

Decorated Geometric

principal of the window with several lights surmounted by a circle.

Decorated Curvilinear

window is filled with flowing tracery of leaf and dagger shapes, trefoils, quatrefoils and cinquefoils.

Perpendicular Gothic

3rd Pointed or Rectilinear

This style was characterized by strong vertical lines in window tracery

Tudor Gothic

Late Perpendicular

This style was a shift from the pointed, ornate Gothic style to the plainer Renaissance style.

Four-centered arch or the Tudor Arch, Oriel Window, Timber frame, Half-timbering, broach spire

following features Tudor Gothic was characterized from

Oriel Window

This window projects from the wall and does not extend to the ground and often supported by brackets or corbels.

bracket or corbels

Oriel window projects from the wall and does not extend to the ground and often supported by?

Elizabethan Gothic

was characterized by windows with vertical mullions and horizontal transoms.

four centered arch or tudor arch

Tudor Gothic features

Oriel window

Tudor Gothic features

Timber frame

Tudor Gothic features

Half-timbering

Tudor Gothic features

Broach Spire

Tudor Gothic features

Early English Vaulting

the quadripartite ribbed vault came into general use. Wall ribs or formerets came into use. The ploughshare twist is produced by raising the springing of the wall rib.

Decorated Vaulting

addition of lierne ribs (short intermediate ribs) produced the star-shaped pattern called stellar vaulting. The intersection of the ribs are covered by a projecting ornament called the boss.

Perpendicular Vaulting

the intricate stellar vaulting led to the type known as the fan, palm or conoidal vaulting

Tudor Vaulting

use of the four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting.

stellar vaulting

star-shaped pattern lierne ribs is called?

Boss

The intersection of the ribs are covered by a projecting ornament called ______

Pendant

sculpted ornament or elongated boss terminating the fan vaulting

Trussed Rafter Roof, Tie Beam Roof, Hammer-beam, Double Hammer-beam, Collar-braced roof, Aisle Roof

Types of Timber Church Roofs

Trussed-rafter roof

structural support for roofs

Tie-beam roof

Simplest form; two rafters pitching one against another

Hammer-beam roof

Roof structure where short horizontal beams are supported by curved braces, creating an open space below without the need for vertical supports.

Double hammer-beam roof

Consists of two horizontal beams supported by curved braces, creating a decorative and functional ceiling structure.

Hugh Herland

The most famous Hammer-beam example was designed (1399) by the master carpenter, ____________, for Westminster Hall. Not only the largest hammer-beam roof in England, this may well be the very first to have been built.

Collar-braced roof

Is a simplified hammer-beam form.

Aisle roof

Merely a continuation of the rafters of the nave

Barrel roof

A type of roof that has a curved, arch-like shape resembling the inside of a barrel.

Canterbury Cathedral

was a mixture of styles with the choir reconstructed in the 12th century; nave in the 14th century; cloisters in the early 15th century.

Exeter Cathedral

is called a Decorated Gothic Cathedral “par excellence”. Its beautiful nave boasts of the longest unbroken Gothic ceiling in the world. Its magnificent west front is covered with a Decorated Gothic image screen

Gloucester Cathedral

is a fusion of Norman Romanesque & Perpendicular Gothic. The cathedral was graced by the filming of the 1st, 2nd and 6th Harry Potter movies. It has a beautiful cloister fan vaulting (1412). It has one of the largest medieval stained glass windows in England.

Hereford Cathedral

is famous for its library of chained books and for the ‘Mappa Mundi’, a 13th-century map of the world.

King’s College Chapel, Cambridge University

by Reginald Ely, is one of the finest examples of late Gothic or Perpendicular Gothic style. It features the world's largest fan vault and stained glass windows

Lichfield Cathedral

is the only medieval English cathedral with 3 spires and dedicated to St. Chad and St. Mary. Its façade is a giant sculpture gallery

Lincoln Cathedral

is one of the most important Medieval cathedrals in England and a prominent landmark visible for miles around. It has been featured in two major films: Da Vinci Code and Young Victoria.

Peterborough Cathedral

has a magnificent façade of a Gothic screen with 3 enormous arches.

Salisbury Cathedral

has a spire (123 m.), the tallest in the world from this period and the tallest in UK today. It contains the world's oldest working clock

Wells Cathedral

is first English cathedral to be built entirely in the new Gothic style.

Its west front is said to have the finest collection of statuary in Europe, retaining almost 300 of its original medieval statues

Westminster Abbey Cathedral

is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for the British monarchs.

Winchester Cathedral

is the longest Gothic cathedral in Europe.

York Minster

is the second largest Gothic cathedral of Northern Europe

Its octagonal Chapter House ceiling is a masterpiece in masonry & stained glass

Conway Castle

was designed for King Edward I by master mason James of St. George, a renowned and gifted castle architect

Caernarvon Castle

is architecturally one of the most impressive of all of the castles of Edward I in Wales. It was designed by master mason James of St. George

Beaumaris Castle

was an unfinished masterpiece & the last & the largest of the Edwardian castles in Wales. It began in 1295 & construction lasted for 35 years.

Manor Houses

were built by wealthy trading families of the first half of the 16th century.

Haddon Hall

has been described as the most complete and the most interesting house of its period.

Hampton Court Palace

is a Tudor palace, developed by Cardinal Wolsey and later Henry VIII, alongside a baroque palace built by William III and Mary II. It has a beautiful hammer beam timber ceiling and a maze garden.

Bramall Hall

is a timber-framed Tudor manor house

The Hereford Mappa Mundi

is unique in Britain's heritage; an outstanding treasure of the medieval world, it records how 13th cent. scholars interpreted the world in spiritual as well as geographical terms.

James of St. George

was the creative genius of Beaumaris Castle and with this he had perfected the concept of the "concentric castle".