16 Facts About English Gothic

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English Gothic is an architectural style that flourished from the late 12th until the mid-17th century.

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English Gothic architecture's defining features are pointed arches, rib vaults, buttresses, and extensive use of stained glass.

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The English Gothic style endured in England much longer than in Continental Europe.

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English Gothic style was introduced from France, where the various elements had first been used together within a single building at the choir of the Abbey of Saint-Denis north of Paris, completed in 1144.

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5.

Many features of English Gothic architecture had evolved naturally from Romanesque architecture .

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Architect and art historian Edmund Sharpe, in The Seven Periods of English Architecture, identified a pre-Gothic Transitional Period, following the Norman period, in which pointed arches and round arches were employed together.

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Alongside the new English Gothic building work of the 19th century, many of England's existing English Gothic buildings were extensively repaired, restored, remodelled, and rebuilt by architects seeking to improve the buildings according to the Romantic, high church aesthetic of the Oxford Movement and to replace many of the medieval features lost in the iconoclastic phases of the Reformation, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

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8.

Various English Gothic styles are seen at their most fully developed in cathedrals, monasteries, and collegiate churches.

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Early English Gothic predominated from the late 12th century until midway to late in the 13th century, It succeeded Norman Architecture, which had introduced early great cathedrals, built of stone instead of timber, and saw the construction of remarkable abbeys throughout England.

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10.

Early English Gothic was particularly influenced by what was called in English Gothic "The French style".

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11.

Early English Gothic is typified by lancet windows, tall narrow lights topped by a pointed arch.

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12.

Second style of English Gothic architecture is generally termed Decorated Gothic, because the amount of ornament and decoration increased dramatically.

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13.

Perpendicular English Gothic is the third and final style of medieval English Gothic architecture in England.

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14.

The pointed arch gradually gave way to the Roman rounded arch, brick began to replace masonry, the roof construction was concealed, and the English Gothic finally gave way to an imitation of Roman and Greek styles.

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Simpler English Gothic roofs were supported by long rafters of light wood, resting on wooden trusses set into the walls.

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English Gothic architects did not like the roof truss systems, because the numerous horizontal beams crossing the nave obstructed the view of the soaring height.

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