item: #1 of 10 id: 21688 author: Butler, Dugald title: Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys date: None words: 78444 flesch: 72 summary: First Pointed work is also found at the churches of _Deer_; _Auchindoir_; _St. Cuthbert's, Monkton_; _St. Nicholas, Prestwick_; _Altyre_; _St. Mary's, Rattray_; _Abdie_; _St. Ninian's on the Isle_; _St. Colmanel's, Buittle_; _Cockpen_; _Pencaitland_; _ It had a provost and ten prebendaries.[280] _St. Salvator's, St. Andrews._--The College of St. Salvator was founded and endowed by Bishop Kennedy in 1456 for a provost and prebendaries. keywords: abbey; abbey church; abbot; aisle; andrews; arcade; arches; architecture; bays; bishop; building; cathedral; celtic; century; chancel; chapel; chapter; choir; church; churches; cloister; college; crossing; date; david; design; doorway; east; end; feet; glasgow; history; house; i. p.; ibid; iii; james; john; king; mary; monastery; monks; nave; new; norman; north; order; paisley; parish church; period; piers; place; pointed; present; queen; remains; robert; round; scotland; scottish; south; square; stone; structure; style; time; tower; transept; vol; wall; west; western; windows; work cache: 21688.txt plain text: 21688.txt item: #2 of 10 id: 22943 author: Falkner, John Meade title: The Nebuly Coat date: None words: 119766 flesch: 76 summary: The doctor and the organist gave effect to the presentation by a nod, and something like a shrug of the shoulders, which deprecated the Rector's conceited pomposity, and implied that if such an exceedingly unlikely contingency as their making friends with Mr Westray should ever happen, it would certainly not be due to any introduction of Canon Parkyn. Put on some more coal, Mr Westray; it is a sinful luxury, a fire in September, and coal at twenty-five shillings a ton; but we must have _some_ festivity to inaugurate the restoration and your advent. keywords: afternoon; anastasia; architect; bellevue; bishop; church; clerk; coat; cullerne; dark; day; dear; door; doubt; end; evening; eyes; face; fire; going; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; hope; hour; house; interest; joliffe; lady; left; letter; life; lodge; look; lord blandamer; making; man; martin; matter; mind; miss; miss joliffe; moment; money; mr joliffe; mr sharnall; mr westray; mrs; night; open; organist; parkyn; people; picture; place; poor; read; rector; room; round; saw; service; set; sir; table; things; thought; time; tower; voice; way; westray; window; work; years cache: 22943.txt plain text: 22943.txt item: #3 of 10 id: 27102 author: Thompson, A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton) title: The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church date: None words: 31786 flesch: 69 summary: Early churches in Kent and Essex 14 11. The walls of earlier churches were entirely taken down, and new arcades built in their place, not necessarily on the precise line of the old foundations. keywords: aisles; arch; arches; building; central; century; chancel; chapel; church; churches; east; end; nave; new; north; old; plan; porch; south; space; tower; transeptal; wall; western cache: 27102.txt plain text: 27102.txt item: #4 of 10 id: 29077 author: George, Walter S. title: Byzantine Churches in Constantinople: Their History and Architecture date: None words: 108112 flesch: 74 summary: In the later vaults, however, the transverse arches, when present, are boldly shown, and the vault springs from the extrados or outer edge (_e.g._ S. Saviour in the Chora, S. Theodore). This form is found in Greek churches of late date, but does not occur in the later churches of Constantinople. keywords: andronicus; apse; arches; bacchus; barrel; bay; bays; brick; building; byzantine; capital; centre; century; chapel; chapter; chora; church; church building; churches; city; columns; comnenus; constantine; constantinople; cornice; course; cross church; day; dome; dome arches; door; drum; east; eastern; emperor; end; exterior; face; fact; fig; form; galleries; gallery; gate; great; greek; ground; hand; history; holy; house; i. p.; iii; illustration; interior; justinian; kai; level; manuel; marble; mark; mesjedi; michael; monastery; mosaic; mosque; narthex; near; north church; outer; page; palace; palaeologus; pammakaristos; pantokrator; parecclesion; patriarch; period; peter; piers; plan; plate; position; present; remains; s. andrew; s. demetrius; s. george; s. irene; s. john; s. mary; s. nicholas; s. saviour; s. sophia; s. thekla; s. theodore; s. theodosia; section; sergius; sides; south; square; stone; studion; sultan; time; tou; turkish; type; vaulting; vaults; view; vol; wall; west; western; windows; work; years cache: 29077.txt plain text: 29077.txt item: #5 of 10 id: 29759 author: Slater, John title: Architecture: Classic and Early Christian date: None words: 56291 flesch: 67 summary: But it was not in Rome only that great buildings were erected. There are no remains of other buildings which would enable us to form an opinion as to the civic architecture of the Etruscans: they must, however, have attained to a considerable skill in sculpture, as in some of the tombs figures are represented in high relief which show no small power of expression. keywords: ancient; arches; architecture; art; b.c; basilica; buildings; capital; christian; church; churches; columns; construction; decoration; egyptian; examples; fig; forms; great; greek; height; illustration; ionic; openings; order; period; plan; remains; rock; roman; rome; roof; round; series; square; stone; style; temple; timber; time; tombs; use; walls; work cache: 29759.txt plain text: 29759.txt item: #6 of 10 id: 30290 author: Heath, Sidney title: Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them date: None words: 30061 flesch: 66 summary: Early Christian churches when built on the same lines were called by the same name. The zig-zag moulding is very common on Norman churches and is so easily recognised that no further description is needed here. keywords: abbey; architecture; bell; buildings; cathedral; century; chancel; christian; church; churches; date; early; england; english; examples; form; gothic; illustration; little; map; mary; mouldings; nave; norman; note; ordnance; ornament; oxford; period; perpendicular; saint; saxon; stone; style; tower; tracery; windows; work cache: 30290.txt plain text: 30290.txt item: #7 of 10 id: 33837 author: Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger) title: Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance date: None words: 56306 flesch: 68 summary: With the Pisani and Giotto the series of the known names of architects of great buildings may be said to begin. The gable, where used in Renaissance buildings; (2) an ornamental gable sometimes placed over windows, doors, and other features in Gothic buildings. keywords: arches; architects; architecture; buildings; cathedral; century; chapter; church; churches; columns; design; early; end; english; examples; features; fig; france; french; gothic; illustration; italian; italy; mouldings; nave; ornament; palace; period; piers; plan; renaissance; roof; stone; style; time; tower; tracery; use; vault; walls; windows; work cache: 33837.txt plain text: 33837.txt item: #8 of 10 id: 43319 author: Durand, Guillaume title: The Symbolism of Churches and Church Ornaments A Translation of the First Book of the Rationale Divinorum Officiorum date: None words: 109921 flesch: 71 summary: Sacramentality_, [Footnote 7] ran through all the arrangements and details of Christian architecture, emblematical of Christian discipline, and suggested by Christian devotion; then must the discipline have been practised, and the devotion felt, before a Christian temple can be reared. [Footnote 12] the Ascension of our Saviour by the Flying Bird; concerning which S. Gregory [Footnote 13] teaches, 'rightly is our Redeemer called a Bird, Whose Body ascended freely into heaven': keywords: account; altar; apostles; arrangement; baptism; bells; bishop; body; book; case; catholic; chancel; chapter; charity; christ; christian; church; church architecture; churches; consecration; cross; day; dedication; divine; door; doth; durandus; east; end; etc; example; footnote; form; forth; glory; god; good; gospel; hands; hath; head; heart; heaven; holy; house; iii; john; law; let; life; light; lord; love; man; material; matthew; meaning; men; mind; nave; oil; order; passage; passion; people; place; priest; psalm; reason; saints; saith; saying; second; set; signifieth; signify; spirit; subject; symbolical; symbolism; temple; things; thou; thy; time; trinity; unction; use; water; way; white; words; work; world cache: 43319.txt plain text: 43319.txt item: #9 of 10 id: 43402 author: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson) title: The Cathedrals of Great Britain: Their History and Architecture date: None words: 133504 flesch: 75 summary: Bishop St. Hugh had sketched the outline of the new church, and his successors carried it out. It was built by Bishop St. Hugh. keywords: abbot; aisle; altar; archbishop; arches; bays; beautiful; bishop; building; buttresses; cathedral; central; century; century work; chantry; chapel; chapter; choir; choir aisle; church; city; clerestory; cross; dean; design; door; doorway; early; east; east end; east window; edward; england; english; feet; figures; fine; fourteenth; glass; good; height; henry; history; house; illustration; john; king; lady; lady chapel; late; length; lord; mary; monastery; monks; monuments; nave; new; norman; norman bishop; norman church; norman work; north; north aisle; north choir; north transept; notice; original; paul; period; perpendicular; piers; place; porch; present; prior; queen; rebuilt; remains; restoration; richard; roof; round; saxon; screen; shrine; sir; south; stone; style; thirteenth; time; tomb; tower; tracery; transept; triforium; vault; wall; west; west end; west tower; william; windows; work; years cache: 43402.txt plain text: 43402.txt item: #10 of 10 id: 56331 author: Thompson, A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton) title: The Historical Growth of the English Parish Church date: None words: 32185 flesch: 66 summary: Statements, also, with regard to the defensive use of church towers must carefully be guarded against, with the proviso that, in certain districts, there are indications that such an use was made of them. The building of great churches, cathedral and monastic, ceased with the suppression of the monasteries. keywords: aisle; altar; arch; building; century; chancel; chantry; chapel; church; churches; college; east; end; floor; like; mary; medieval; nave; near; norfolk; north; northants; parish; parish church; plan; porch; screen; south; st mary; stone; tower; wall; west; window; work; yorks cache: 56331.txt plain text: 56331.txt