Ecclesiastical Architecture of the County of Essex, from the Norman Era to the Sixteenth Century (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...a Chance, and a Tower at the west end. The whole of the walls are built of rough stones of a most remarkable kind, being of-a very dark brown colour. There is not any architectural feature about the Church deserving the last notice, except the north and south doorways. PLATE XXVI.--Fig. 1, represents the exterior elevation of the south doorway; the vertical section and soffite of the arch, C and D, are represented at Figs. 2 and 3, which show the inner face of the springers on the left hand marked E, on the elevation, Fig. 1. The plan of the left-hand jamb is given at Fig. 4. A and B, represent the jamb and shaft of the pillar as seen on the elevation, Fig. 1. C, Fig. 5, shows the section of the arch at G, Fig. 1. And D, Fig. 5, shows the section of the same stone at D E, Fig. 1, and also the section of the label. Figs. 7 and 8, represent the cap and base of the right-hand pillar. Figs. 9 and 10, show the elevation and vertical section of one of the flowers of the arch G. Figs. 1 and 2, are drawn to a scale of Q of an inch to a foot; and Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, are drawn to one quarter the real size; and Figs. 9 and 10, are represented one half the real size. PLATE XXVII.-Fig. 1, represents the elevation of the head and left-hand jamb of the north doorway. There are eleven stones in the arch, the face of which is flush with the face of the wall. Fig. 2, represents the key-stone drawn to one fourth the real size; the stone centre under the arch is quite plain, and recedes from the face of the arch and jambs 2, % inches. The details of these doorways are well adapted for modern imitation, and are exceedingly good and pure specimens of the Norman style of the time of William II. and Henry 1., between the years 1097 and 1128. 1113112..