BRITISH gothic 1

Norman Gothic

•semi-circular arched windows

Transitional Gothic

pointed arches replacing the round

Lancet or first pointed style

characterized by long, pointed, narrow windows.

Decorated Gothic / Second Pointed, Decorated or Curvilinear

characterized by fanciful window tracery and divided into 2 periods.

Decorated Geometric:

lights surmounted by a circle

Decorated Curvilinear:

window filled with flowing tracery of leaf and dagger shapes and foils.

Pointed or rectilinear

has strong vertical lines in window tracery.

Tudor Gothic /Late Perpendicular

shifted from pointed to

vertical lines in window tracery.

plainer style.

Elizabethan Gothic

with vertical mullions and horizontal transoms.

Tudor arch

1. Four- centered arch

Broach spire

This is an octagonal spire with 4 pyramidal shape elements at the corners

Elizabethan Gothic was characterized by

windows with vertical mullions and horizontal transoms

Half –timbering

This is a wall technique with exposed timber frames serving both as

structural and decorative

Early English Vaulting

the quadripartite ribbed vault came into

general use

Decorated Vaulting

addition of lierne ribs (short intermediate ribs) produced the star-shaped pattern called stellar vaulting

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

Pendant

sculpted ornament or elongated boss terminating the fan vaulting

CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL

was a mixture of styles with the choir

EXETER CATHEDRAL

-is called a Decorated Gothic Cathedral “par excellence

-beautiful nave boasts of the longest unbroken Gothic ceiling in the world

GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL (1100)

is a fusion of Norman

Romanesque & Perpendicular Gothic

HEREFORD CATHEDRAL

is famous for its library of chained books

and for the ‘Mappa Mundi

KING’S COLLEGE CHAPEL

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

LINCOLN CATHEDRAL

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

WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL

is the longest Gothic cathedral in Europe

YORK MINSTER

is the second largest Gothic cathedral of Northern Europe

BEAUMARIS CASTLE

he had perfected the concept of the "concentric castle