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    The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church
    The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church
    The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church
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    The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church

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    Release dateDec 3, 2019
    ISBN4057664582485
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      The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church - A. Hamilton Thompson

      A. Hamilton Thompson

      The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664582485

      Table of Contents

      PREFACE

      CHAPTER I

      THE ORIGIN OF THE CHURCH PLAN IN ENGLAND

      CHAPTER II

      PARISH CHURCHES OF THE LATER SAXON PERIOD

      CHAPTER III

      THE AISLELESS CHURCH OF THE NORMAN PERIOD

      CHAPTER IV

      THE AISLED PARISH CHURCH

      I. NAVE, TOWER, AND PORCHES

      CHAPTER V

      THE AISLED PARISH CHURCH

      II. TRANSEPTS AND CHANCEL

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      CHAPTER I

      THE ORIGIN OF THE CHURCH PLAN IN ENGLAND

      CHAPTER II

      PARISH CHURCHES OF THE LATER SAXON PERIOD

      CHAPTER III

      THE AISLELESS CHURCH OF THE NORMAN PERIOD

      CHAPTER IV

      THE AISLED PARISH CHURCH

      I. Nave, Tower, and Porches

      CHAPTER V

      THE AISLED PARISH CHURCH

      II. Transepts and Chancel

      INDEX OF PLACES

      PREFACE

      Table of Contents

      There is as yet no book entirely devoted to the development of the plan of the parish church in England, and the body of literature which bears upon the subject is not very accessible to the ordinary student. The present volume is an attempt to indicate the main lines on which that development proceeded. It is obvious that, from necessary considerations of space, much has been omitted. The elevation of the building, and the treatment of its decorative features, window-tracery, sculpture, etc., belong to another and wider branch of architectural study, in which the parish church pursues the same line of structural development as the cathedral or monastic church, and the architectural forms of the timber-roofed building follow the example set by the larger churches with their roofs of stone. To this side of the question much attention has been devoted, and of late years increasing emphasis has been laid on the importance of the vaulted construction of our greater churches, which is the very foundation of medieval architecture and the secret of its progress through its various styles. It is expected that the reader of this book, in which a less familiar but none the less important topic is handled, will already have some acquaintance with the general progress of medieval architectural forms, with which the development of the ground plan keeps pace.

      Some historical and architectural questions, which arise out of the consideration of the ground plan, and have an important bearing upon it, are treated in another volume of this series, which is intended to be complementary to the present one.

      The writer is grateful to his wife, for the plans and sketches which she has drawn for him, and for much help: to Mr C. C. Hodges and Mr J. P. Gibson, for the permission to make use of their photographs; and to the Rev. J. C. Cox, LL.D., F.S.A., and the Rev. R. M. Serjeantson, M.A., F.S.A., for their kindness in reading through the proofs and supplying suggestions of the greatest value.

      A. H. T.

      Gretton, Northants

      26 January 1911

      CHAPTER I

      Table of Contents

      THE ORIGIN OF THE CHURCH PLAN IN ENGLAND

      Table of Contents

      CHAPTER II

      Table of Contents

      PARISH CHURCHES OF THE LATER SAXON PERIOD

      Table of Contents

      CHAPTER III

      Table of Contents

      THE AISLELESS CHURCH OF THE NORMAN PERIOD

      Table of Contents

      CHAPTER IV

      Table of Contents

      THE AISLED PARISH CHURCH

      I. NAVE, TOWER, AND PORCHES

      Table of Contents

      CHAPTER V

      Table of Contents

      THE AISLED PARISH CHURCH

      II. TRANSEPTS AND CHANCEL

      Table of Contents

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      Table of Contents

      CHAPTER I

      Table of Contents

      THE ORIGIN OF THE CHURCH PLAN IN ENGLAND

      Table of Contents

      § 1. Side by side with the establishment of Christianity as the religion of the Roman empire, there appeared a fully developed plan for places of Christian worship. The normal Christian church of the fourth century of our era was an aisled building with the entrance at one end, and a semi-circular projection known as the apse at the other. The body of the building, the nave with its aisles, was used by the congregation, the quire of singers occupying a space, enclosed within low walls, at the end nearest the apse. In the apse, raised above the level of the nave, was the altar, behind which, ranged round the wall, were the seats for the bishop and assistant clergy. This type of church, of which the aisled nave and the apse are the essential parts, is known as the basilica. The name, employed to designate a royal or magnificent building, had long been applied to large buildings, whether open to the sky or roofed, which were used, partly as commercial exchanges, partly as halls of justice. It is still often said that the Christian basilicas were merely adaptations of such buildings to sacred purposes. Some of the features of the Christian plan are akin to those of the secular basilica. The apse with its semi-circular range of seats and its altar reproduces the judicial tribune, with its seats for the praetor and his assistant judges, and its altar on which oaths were taken. The open galleries, which in some of the earliest Christian basilicas at Rome form an upper story to the aisles, recall the galleries above the colonnades which surrounded the central hall of some of the larger secular basilicas. Again, the atrium or forecourt through which the Christian basilica was often approached has been supposed to be derived from the forum in connexion with which the secular basilica was frequently built.

      § 2. However, while the atrium of

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