The groining of the side aisles of the nave very effective from the strength of the cross ribs.
They are in detail more complicated than those of earlier styles, and in plain as distinguished from fan-tracery vaulting thegroining ribs are more numerous.
It had always a central pillar, from which the groining spread on all sides, like the leaves of a palm-tree; externally it was covered with a tall conical roof.
The capitals of the fluted pillars are small, delicate, and refined, and the groining of the roof is carried up in exquisite lines.
Internally we find the cell sculptured into the fashion of a little chapel, with a groined ceiling, the groining shafts and ribs well enough designed, but rather rudely executed.
The tomb of Abbot Cheltenham, at Tewkesbury, has the spandrels ornamented with shields charged with scallop shells, and the pilgrim staff and scrip are sculptured on the bosses of the groining of the canopy over the tomb.
The groining at the back of the niche just above the figures is a feature of the full-blown style.
There is more scope for this coloured groining in windows where the canopy runs through several lights.
The way the man's face is included in the same piece of glass with the yellow groining of the arch, while his coloured cap connects it with his body, bespeaks a designer most expert in glazing, and intent upon it always.
The nave, for some reason, inexplicable on first sight, is low and unimpressive, caused doubtless by the grandeur of the supporting pillars of the roof and the shallowness of the groining above.
The central boss of the lantern groining is a half-length figure of Christ in glory, considerably above life size, and with the conventual clouding around it; it is boldly carved in oak.
The long spandrils of the groining are painted with conventional scrollwork of leaves and flowers in a style contemporaneous with the architecture.
The groining of the Octagon forms eight hoods, four above the windows, and four above the great arches of the Choir, Nave and Transepts.
The space between the great arch and the groining of the Choir is filled with rich tracery, on the central panel of which is painted the Crucifixion, with angels holding the chalice and palm branch on the right and left.
She saw it all at a glance--the lights, the black shadows, the sudden glow of a match on the groining of the arch above.
The simple groining of the Frari is entirely executed in brick, and springs in the aisles from pilasters corbelled out of the walls midway in height, just as in Sta.
In the nave two of the aisle-arches make one groining bay.
I did so, however, and found a large but uninteresting church, with groining of pointed section, which gives considerable character to an otherwise insipid work.
The groining of the nave is divided into three bays of sexpartite vaults--each bay being equal to two bays of the aisles, and there is a lantern over the two eastern bays.
North of the nave of the church is a good cloister, on the east side of which is a fine square chapter-house, divided by groining piers into nine bays.
All thegroining is divided into diamond-shaped panels, composed alternately of black, red, and white marble, all carved in the same kind of pattern.
It is groined throughout, and the groining has the peculiarity of having ridge ribs longitudinally but not transversely.
The eastern apse is circular in plan, but divided into seven groining bays, and lighted by three windows of three lights.
One of the smaller columns carries the pier arch, the other three carry the transverse and diagonal groining ribs, whilst the wall ribs are carried on shafts on each side of the clerestory window.
The groining throughout the greater part of the church seems to be of the original thirteenth-century work, with ribs finely moulded, and vaulting cells slightly domical in section.
The groiningribs are of great size, and moulded with a triple roll in both nave and aisles.
The groining is all of the kind so common in Spain, having ogee lierne ribs in addition to the diagonal, and in place of ridge ribs.
The light is admitted by small windows in the upper part of the walls, and above the abaci of the groining shafts, which are continued round the building as a string-course.
Under the groining against the north wall is an angel blowing a trumpet, and there are other angels against the springing of the groining ribs holding children in their hands.
In course of time the groining was varied, and in place of the round barrel-vault, one of pointed section was adopted, and in place of it again the usual quadripartite vault.
The groining piers are clusters of shafts, and the buttresses on the outside are finished with crocketed gables and a bold cornice carved with foliage.
It has a western tower, a nave of three bays of quadripartite groining carried on very bold piers and shafts in the side walls, a chancel, and apsidal sanctuary.
The groining at the east end is planned as if for an apse, and portions of diagonal buttresses, to resist the thrust of the groining ribs, are built against the east wall, in the way often to be noticed in the later Spanish buildings.
There is no provision in the plan of the main piers for carrying the diagonal groining ribs, and it may be, therefore, that when they were first planned it was not intended to groin the nave.
All this has been changed since 1885, the bells now hang (but are not pealed) in the octagon, the chimes and clock are in the chamber below, the arch is opened and the groining restored.
The groining with cusped panels and numerous bosses has escaped restoration.
A bold and ingenious treatment of the vaulting shaft of the tower groiningis used on these piers; on the western ones the shafts stop upon the ends of the hood moulding.
It had been fastened to the groining by a large nail of very singular shape, with a large square head, apparently of foreign manufacture.
Like Westminster, Wells, and other English examples, except York and Southwell, it has a central pillar, from which the groining of the roof springs gracefully in harmonious lines.
Probably there was a corresponding one in the southern arm, with groiningequally remarkable.
The height to the centre of nave groining is 100 feet.
The golden groining is quadripartite, the ribs meeting in great colored bosses and pendents, added at periods of less simple taste.
The three engaged pier columns facing the nave carry the transverse and diagonal groining ribs, while the wall ribs are met by shafts on each side of the clerestory windows.
In the original structure, they were probably counterparts of those supporting the inner angles of the tower between nave and side aisles, with a fully developed system of shafts for the support of the various groining ribs.
The early decorated tower, the exterior arcading of the chancel, the uniquegroining of the sanctuary ("S.
The capitals of the four dwarf pillars which support the groining are interesting, and should be compared and contrasted with those in S.
The west gateway, a few remains of groining and the wall facing the street north of the gate are practically all that remains of the building as Erasmus saw it, unless we reckon the roof of the chapel of B.
It is supported on ten tall slender columns, from which the groining of the roof ramifies in all directions.
The medallions, bosses, and groining in the passage leading into the court are in a much better state of preservation.
Those who may require to wait for a train at this junction, should, if time permit, drive up in the omnibus to the town and visit the parish church, with its handsome columns gracefully ramifying into the groining of the roof of the aisles.
Stone groining is imitated in wood in cases where it would not be safe to place the weight of a stone roof on the walls.
In large buildings vaulting shafts are carried up the pillars to support the groining of the ROOF, which is much more complicated than in the Early English.
The ribs of the groining were richly painted at the intersections, with images in relief on every boss.
Its vaulting was pointed, withgroining resting on columns, whose capitals were either Romanesque or Gothic.
The pointed vaulting of the southern transept is 12th century, and the ogival groiningrests on Norman capitals.
All the stone groining and the wood and iron work have been completely restored under the direction of Mr J.
In the gable of the =South Transept= is a very beautiful rose window, which is hidden by the stonegroining from the inside.
The groining is good, but spoilt, as is generally found to be the case throughout Italy, by gilded and coloured bosses which mar the otherwise simple effect of the vaulting.
The groining ribs of the vault are of red brick and the arches of the bays are grey stone.
A fragment of rib still remaining was for the cross-groining of the aisle; but as this would have interfered with the arch mouldings, the rib was terminated higher up the wall upon a bracket in the form of a crouching figure.
There are also remains of groining like that of the aisle.
The delicate groiningof the roof, the foliage, and the panelling will be generally admired.
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