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Key elements
Final Gothic style
Large windows with
stained glass
Used square
mouldings
Fan vaulting
Decorated and
elegant flying buttresses
Slender walls
Hammerbeam roofs
helped distribute the load – often painted and adorned.
Examples
Kings
College Chapel, Cambridge
www.kings.cam.ac.uk
Founded in 1441 by
Henry VI
The foundation
stone was laid on 25 July 1446
Originally the
style was to be simple but a more dramatic style was chosen in 1445
Originally the
college was for Eton boys only
The Chapel was
built over 100 years in three stages being completed in 1547
It has the world’s
largest fan vaulting as well as fantastic stained glass windows and the
painting ‘The Adoration of the Magi’ by Rubens
It is possible to
see the three phases of construction on the fabric of the Chapel.
The early phase
used magnesian limestone from Tadcaster and can be clearly seen
particularly on the buttresses
In the reign of
Richard III the first six bays reached full height – the first five bays
and the roof (of oak and lead) were in use.
The Tudors
completed the construction work
The marvellous
stonework demonstrates the art and skills of the master masons
particularly:
1444 – Reginald
Ely who worked until 1461
1477 – Simon Clerk
(who also worked on the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds and Eton College) – it
is possible that it was Simon who decided to change the vault from
simple ivy design to the more elaborate fan vaulting we see today.
1508 – John
Wastell who worked on the fan vaulting between 1512 and 1515
Bath Abbey
www.bathabbey.org
The site has seen
many different religious establishments over the centuries:
676 – a nunnery
757 – Anglo-Saxon
church
953 – monks, with
the support of King Edgar, founded St Peter’s
1087 – last Abbot
of Bath died and William Rufus gave abbey to John de Villula (Bishop of
Wells) who restored the lands to the monastery and endowed it so that in
1090 there Norman church with monastery
1137 – fire
destroyed most of the city and damaged the Abbey which had to be rebuilt
1499 – Abbey
founded and new building in the Perpendicular style replaced de
Villula’s earlier cathedral (was destroyed in the Reformation and
rebuilt from 1611)
1755 – the last
elements of the monastery disappeared.
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