THE f;: ANTUARIAN very richly decorated. The val\lted roof w~s then buill over them. This enorl11l11l. weight necessitated the strengthening of the walls by buttresses at the pomts wher Iii spandrels left the springers. In an age, too, when stone was d~arer than labour, hili tres,se~ ecom>.mis~d stpne !>y ~~~bling the wall~ 10 be !!lu?h Uunn"r. Tlwre was " I." t~~ pio.bf~m of lighting tile churche~ , j.,arge wmdows dlmlmshe~, the stre?l1!th ofwlI lI~1 henc~ the sm~ lllancets o( the earlier churches, and the resultant dIm relIgIOUS hS1l1
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The development of buttresses, continued Mr. Barton, and the construction of til, flying buttress, allowed of larger windows, and he traced for us the development of II .. dO\1ble-curve or " ogee .. window, and of the geometrIc tracery .. Deali~g next with decoration, Mr. Barton showed us slides of Early English m~"hl ings, dra;vi~g ~ttel1tion (0 th~ wopderful play of lIght and shad~, a~d the carved foh "~' not naturalistic, but full of hfe and vigour. He showed us hoI;" thIS developed 1010 11.. more elabl'rate ,\nd very bequtiful carving of the Decora!ed Penod, when the fohago WII naturalistic, not so gqod '1";!lltecturally as the Early Enghsl1, but stIll very beaulll\" This, in tu.rn, develop.ed into the flamboyaDt style. The lecturer then proceeded to the Perpendicular Style, often called " Lanl "'" Bu.ilding," all,d showed how Ihis style of building allo~ed for larger wmdows HIIiI The Perp.endicular, said Mr. Barton, was an entlfely Enghsh style, unknown elsewile.. It has been said that French Gothic ended m a weddll1g cake, and Enghsh Got h,c II I cucumber frame .
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Mr. Barton then showed us someeKlremely intetestin\l slides of Gloucester Cathcdlll i f:\~ ,xpl~ i \\~\\ hO\'i,~tl;t~ ul'i'o.r\l\l\a.\~ King EqI;Vru;d U, havlU¥ s'''1;le\J,ow or o.ther,."' ~ n ll ~~" to, ~,e qll:w,Ws.e~ after l;t(~ mu~9,e.', ~,\\d dW"~ a vast nUl,l'\ber of pllgrIll1,s, .and tlll'lr m 111 \
t6 G!oucester,-the Chapter WIshed to heIghten and hghten the Chou. The Pro hi! " ' was overe\,me by " \a ntyro buildi~g "; II church w\\hlll, a church .. TNs."<\W,cOPAed a; Tew,\<e:sbur-y, a n~ W,eVs, and, '1\ t\l,e sa,we tim ~, t\Je " fa Q,-t,acol I c~\lr<),st~is.vS of Il;Ie f"J,'p!{l\illcula~ slYle, was devl'loPed I;>y b,\11.ldlOg the ~oof of hi s!'l.~ wAil trace~y' lightly super-Jmpc;>sed . Mr. Barton followed thiS up hy, ShOWlll~ II s<?Q;l.~ v'iJ,y, q,<lii#tw sljdys of t»1' Chapter tlovse a n~ Lavabo. at Tewkesbury. Mr. Barton concluded by showing some sUdes .of church ~culptur.es, suy \I tim.! Unilg~~ »,e\~ tru;e i.n Engl \s)1 Chutci).es, .having been ag'l\lI~t th,e lal'( 111 ~eFta~n ped,,". C);1'#»,eLt's 'Ael,!,. s,a,td; fv,\r. ~,~r\o!,1, <!~facl'9.lIllages of sall1ts, bllt spa,ed o.l'dmary, portru I We were then shown some slides of brasses, that entirely English, one migh t aln lllOl say, K:entish, art: ' Dmwing our attent·ion to the exquiSite line-work sbown 10 the hl.' examples, Mr. Barton fittingly ended hIS fascmatmg lecture by pouring well-me, II, II s~orr;> \>11 thQsew,bo.sIlY Ih,e EnglisJ,J,a.<en9t al1;lUt\s.llc na.llon. 'Fhe sal1)1' evening Mr. Barton gave a lecture on French Gothic and . show I II examples, of Fren,ch Romil11'\s,que ChU1;ches, drawing our attentlon to thelT un-Illlih orieQtal feeling. We w,<re. ther;> tre~.t~Q, to a 'Y.\l!1.Q,~~ful s.e.lii«s o( slid.es. 0.£ Ch.a,tr~s, A1l1\ells, 1,1,~1I II L~ i'1itn~. VI.~ BQ!lj;ge~, ·MS. ~ton ,,~pl~\n,e d tQll.1 th,e I~,~ of ~"'\I,ltful,l~ prOpOtll~1 1 towers and spires was due to ifie stnvmg of the French bUilders after 111te~lOr \>c ylll Th~ li'lx(~rre.s! int§riQX beauty \0 eJ:\tetio.ri· I)~.~.u~Y.)· 1;4,e~ (Q)J.Q~~.4 '1. c!J;~'!!,"lJ/ls~ QIIytll ll l th~I,~ gl;~.s~;~ nq,-ill, 89 dp!tlg,p'(od!i ~q hui di!,g~. ~ I~d wit!) g~~t n,onilj,ty. 'IJl)f. ppetry,
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