scholarly journals Notices of the History and Architectural Features of the ancient Church of St Cuthbert at Coldingham

1852 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 84-86
Author(s):  
Daniel Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Gothic Architecture ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
The Subject

Dr. Daniel Wilson, with the aid of the architect P. Hamilton, whose drawings and plans of Coldingham Church were used to illustrate Dr. Wilson's points, discursed on the subject of Coldingham Priory's architectural features. Several details suggested to Dr. Wilson that the building could be considered an extremely early example of the First Pointed style of Gothic architecture. By comparison with several other Scottish churches of the same period, he showed clearly that evidence of the church's association with Durham could be found even in its architectural features. Meetings minutes for June 14, 1852 are appended.

Home is Where the Heart Abides Migration, return and housing in Dakar, Senegal

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
Guilia Sinatti
Keyword(s):  
Home Country ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
Global Age ◽  
Perceived Importance ◽  
Local Construction ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Depth Interviews

The increased interconnectedness and possibilities for travel and communication that characterise the current, global age have strongly affected scholarly ways of understanding contemporary forms of identification and belonging. Literature on the subject strongly challenges the notion of home as a fixed place, particularly where migration is concerned. The case study of Senegalese migration, however, contrasts this argument. Based upon ethnographic research and in depth interviews with migrants conducted in Senegal and in Italy between 2004 and 2007, this article shows that for many Senegalese the ultimate home still remains strongly identified with the country of origin. Questioned on the issue at stake, Senegalese migrants unanimously express the eventual goal of return to the home-land. The perceived importance of an anchorage in Senegal is expressed even more strikingly than in words, in the practices of migrant investment in housing. Migrants invest massively in the home country, significantly altering the landscape of local cities. This article shows that the intensity and features of construction activities undertaken by migrants in the capital city of Dakar are provoking a veritable process of urban makeover, which is transforming the physiognomy of the built environment. Alongside transforming the landscape of many peripheral neighbourhoods by altering mainstream architectural features of buildings and importing Western styles and taste in local construction practices, migrants are also contributing towards the creation of new symbols of success.

Dickie Bateman and the Gothicization of Old Windsor: Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 97-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew M. Reeve
Keyword(s):  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Horace Walpole ◽  
Gothic Architecture ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Gothic Revival ◽  
Stylistic Change ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Veil

Mr Dicky Bateman was a typical eccentric, who resembled his friend Horace Walpole in his Gothic affectation, and [John] Wilkes in his impious buffoonery.In one of the witty characterizations for which he is justifiably famous, Horace Walpole described the subject of this article — the transformation of the villa at Old Windsor owned by his friend, Richard (Dickie) Bateman — as a bout of one-upmanship between two men of taste: ‘[I] converted Dicky Bateman from a Chinese to a Goth […] I preached so effectively that every pagoda took the veil’. He later described the change of the style of Bateman’s house in terms of spiritual affiliation: Bateman’s house had ‘changed its religion […] I converted it from Chinese to Gothic’. Here as elsewhere in the early years of the Gothic Revival, Walpole serves as principal interlocutor, providing keen, if sharply biased, insights on many significant building projects in England. Walpole positions himself as a teacher and Bateman as a disciple whom he convinced to change his tastes from Chinoiserie (‘the fashion of the instant’) to the Gothic, the style ‘of the elect’. Walpole’s clever allegory of stylistic change as national and religious conversion was based in part on the fact that he provided the conduit for Richard Bentley and Johann Heinrich Müntz, two of his closest designers in the ‘Committee of Taste’, to design Gothic additions for Bateman between 1758-61. Rebuilt and expanded in the fashionable mode of Walpole’s own Strawberry Hill and by its designers, from Walpole’s perspective at least, Old Windsor as remodelled for Bateman served to reinforce his role as arbiter of the Gothic taste and Strawberry Hill as its paradigm.

scholarly journals The Late Gothic Portal in Trebišov Pauline Order Church, Architecture and Geometry

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Zuzana Grúňová ◽  
Miloslava Borošová Michalcová ◽  
Éva Vesztróczy
Keyword(s):  
Church Architecture ◽  
Geometrical Construction ◽  
Simple Method ◽  
Gothic Architecture ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
The Church ◽  
Later Phase ◽  
Pointed Arch

Abstract Gothic architecture is one of the oldest surviving architecture in Slovakia. The Church of Pauline Order in Trebišov has many building phases; its entrance stone portal belongs to the later phase dated about the second half of the 15th century. Paper focuses on an architectural features and geometry of this portal. Portal has clearly a geometrical construction that is compared to another late gothic portal from church in Handlová. Conclusion suggests, that ratio of the entire portal dimensions is close to 4 : 3, proportions of jamb and opening widths are 1 : 4 : 1 part of the overall portal width and there highly probably existed some simple method of determining position of pointed arch arches.

scholarly journals The Style of Ornament which prevailed from the Fourth to the Twelfth Century

1852 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 67-69
Author(s):  
Alexander Christie
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Decorative Arts ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
The Subject

An account of Alexander Christie's lecture on the subject of decorative arts around Europe from the fourth to the twelfth century. Christie opines that architectural features and styles should be taken as representative of the decorative taste of the time. In his lecture, he showed the development of style through drawings and other illustrative props. The minutes of the April 12, 1852 meeting of the Society are appended, largely an account of the donations received. 

scholarly journals DOCUMENTING THE ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION, LAHORE

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
Faiqa Khilat ◽  
Muhammad Yusuf Awan, ◽  
Sana Malik ◽  
Beenish Mujahid
Keyword(s):  
City Centre ◽  
Gothic Architecture ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
High Court ◽  
Artistic Style ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
Mall Road ◽  
Distinct Character ◽  
Missionary School ◽  
Architectural Characteristics

The Cathedral Church of the Resurrection is a spectacular, monumental structure having distinctive features of Gothic architecture located on Mall Road, Lahore. In the nineteenth century, British rulers developed this road as the foremost city centre after they established their government in the area. Other important buildings situated on this road are High Court, General Post Office, Town Hall, Montgomery Hall, Punjab University, Atchison College, churches and cathedrals. Among various structures, the enormity of this Cathedral reflects its glory, in cosmic green meadows. The artistic style of Gothic architecture introduced by the British is truly represented in this monument. Every day, many Christians visit here to perform their sacramental obligations. In addition, the Cathedral includes its adjacent missionary school, known as Lahore Cathedral School. The structure seems to be intact; but, closer examination reveals the reality of major aspect in need of attention. The research was carried out by closely scrutinizing numerous fragments of the Cathedral through surveys and photography. The paper highlights the distinct character of the monument by assessing its architectural features in detail and concluding various measures needed to conserve the monument’s heritage. Keywords: Gothic, architecture, church, monument, Cathedral

York Minster's Nave: The Cologne Connection

1991 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans J. Böker
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
English Court ◽  
Gothic Architecture ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
Stylistic Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cologne Cathedral

Within the stylistic development of English Gothic architecture of the late thirteenth century, the nave of York Minster stands quite apart for its clear continental orientation. Only the great western window and the high vault-both inserted after the structural completion of the nave-conform to the standards of the Decorated Style that dominated English ecclesiastical buildings around 1300. The architecture of the nave itself has generally been regarded as an offspring of the French Rayonnant Gothic, although no specific building could be positively identified as its source; comparisons have dealt exclusively with individual architectural features instead of the system as a whole. Cologne Cathedral, however, never hitherto considered a possible source of influence for York Minster's nave, resembles the English church more than any French cathedral and accordingly must be taken as its main and perhaps only source of inspiration. This German orientation of York, unusual as it is in the history of English architecture, has its parallel in some rather close historical connections between the English court and the German emperor and, notably, his archchancellors, the archbishops of Cologne.

scholarly journals Geometry of the Late Gothic Portal in Handlová Church

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-75
Author(s):  
Zuzana Grúňová
Keyword(s):  
Geometrical Construction ◽  
Geometrical Analysis ◽  
Gothic Architecture ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
The Church ◽  
Later Phase ◽  
Pointed Arch

AbstractGothic architecture is one of the oldest surviving architecture in Slovakia. The Church of St Catherine of Alexandria in Handlová was built in the High Gothic period of 1360 - 1370; its main stone portal belongs to the later phase of 1502. The paper focuses on architectural features and geometry of this late gothic portal. The portal has a geometrical construction clearly based on the square of 2670 × 2670 mm. The division into thirds is applied in the details of the intersecting stone mouldings. Conclusions of the geometrical analysis suggest that the ratio of width to height of the entire portal could be close to 2 : 3 or 5 : 8 to suggest some consideration, but it was not a primary goal to attain precise ratios. The stone cutter just followed many times repeated geometrical procedure - square and the pointed arch, based on it.

GROTTOES THAT HAVE SURVIVED TO THE PRESENT DAY FROM ISTANBUL'S HISTORICAL GARDENS AND THEIR ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (22) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Drahşan UĞURYOL
Keyword(s):  
Basic Principle ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
Structural Plan ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Bearing Structure

Since the 18th century, water elements in new forms have been added to the diversity of water elements that are very rich in the design of Ottoman gardens. One of the most commonly used elements in garden arrangements in Istanbul during this period is the grottos, which are artificial caves. Aim: Considering the examples of these structures in Istanbul, it is seen that many of them have disappeared, and those that have survived to the present day have conservation problems. It is necessary to research the design and structural plan of the grottoes, the materials used and the decoration program so that the necessary restoration and conservation work can be carried out. For this reason, this study aimed at determining the design properties of the grottoes in historical gardens in Istanbul. Method: Within the scope of the study, grottos located in Yıldız Palace, Maslak Pavilions, Beykoz Pavilion, Emirgan Grove, Abraham Pasha Grove and Mizzi Mansion garden were architecturally evaluated in detail. Result: The grottos in historical gardens in Istanbul were created by covering the surfaces of a bearing structure created using stone, brick and iron supports with a mortar, natural or artificial stones to form a cave. The basic principle in the design is to obtain a natural look. Grottoes resembled cascades with the water that usually flowed in a stepped way were also used to grow plants on them, to create a strolling area in the garden, or as a watch area. Conclusion: With this study, it has been observed that in order to protect the grottos in the historical gardens of Istanbul, it has been seen that it is necessary to prepare their inventories, to reveal conservation problems and to do more research on the subject.

scholarly journals VII.—The Church of St. Augustine, Hedon, Yorkshire

Archaeologia ◽  
1884 ◽  
Vol 48 (01) ◽  
pp. 185-200
Author(s):  
George Edmund Street
Keyword(s):  
Saint Augustine ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
Architectural Description ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Town ◽  
The Church

In venturing to lay before the Society of Antiquaries some notes on the architectural features of the church of Saint Augustine, at Hedon, near Hull, I have taken it for granted that I should be excused if I did not try at the same time to go into the archæological history of the town or churches; what is here expected from an architect being, I presume, that he should prepare a simple architectural description of the various parts of the building, such as might be given without any knowledge at all of the men who built it, or of any documentary evidence as to the dates at which they built. The truth is that we architects have not often the leisure necessary for the investigation of this part of the subject, and in this case I doubt whether if I had leisure I could have learnt much beyond what is told by Mr. Poulson in his carefulHistory of Holdernesse.

scholarly journals VI.—On the English Origin of Gothic Architecture

Archaeologia ◽  
1871 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-96
Author(s):  
John Henry Parker
Keyword(s):  
Considerable Importance ◽  
Gothic Architecture ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Church

My object on the present occasion is to call attention to what appears to be a popular delusion on a subject of considerable importance to the archaeologist. If it is not entirely a delusion, it is certainly a great exaggeration and misapprehension. And yet it is almost an article of faith with every Frenchman; and it has so long been accepted by German and English antiquaries as an ascertained fact that it will seem like heresy to doubt it—I mean the opinion that the medieval style of architecture usually called “the Gothic style ” is of French origin, and that Suger, Abbat of St.-Denis, near Paris, was the inventor, and the church of St.-Denis the first example, of it. The subject, in all its bearings, has been my favourite study for the last thirty years, and this particular church I have visited very often, and carefully examined on different occasions in company with some of the best-informed French antiquaries and architects, including the very able architect M. Viollet Le Due, who has charge of the works there.

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