GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND

PRESENTATION BY : SANISHA, SHWETA AND DARSHITA

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 CASE STUDY-1
➔ King's College Chapel is the chapel of
KINGS COLLEGE CHAPEL King's College in the University of
Cambridge. It is considered one of the
finest examples of late Perpendicular
Gothic English architecture and
features the world's largest fan vault.

➔ The King’s College was founded in 1441 by King Henry VI

and made deliberately with a chapel. Since Henry VI was a
man who was devoted to religion and learning, he felt it was
vital to have a chapel on his campus. Over a period of about
100 years, the Chapel was finished after many contributors,
architects, and designers helped to complete the chapel in
1536.
 Rood screen-The rood screen, organ, and fan vault

The Great East Window

The Chapel's large stained glass windows were completed by 1531.

The original plans called for lierne vaulting, and the piers of the
choir were built to conform with them.Ultimately, a complex fan
vault was constructed instead.Reginald probably designed the
window tracery at the extreme east of the church's north side: the
east window of the easternmost side chapel, which unlike the
Perpendicular style of the others is in curvilinear Gothic style.
TATTERSHALL CASTLE
❏ Design
❏ The plan of the castle is roughly rectangular; it is bounded by an inner moat
[1]
surrounded by an outer moat. The inner enclosure, or Ward, was that of the
original 13th-century castle, and the original entrance was on the north side
towards the west end.[1]
❏ The Outer Ward, between the outer moat and inner moat, housed the stables.[1]
The Middle Ward, originally accessed by a bridge from the Outer Ward, housed a
gatehouse and guardhouse. Today, access to the castle is via this Middle Ward.[1]
The Inner Moat encompasses the Inner Ward, where the Great Tower and the
kitchens (now demolished) were situated.
One of the earliest examples of a show of private wealth,
this was built in 1440 by Ralph Cromwell, treasurer to
Henry VI. As the traceried windows suggest, it was less a
defensive structure than a six-storey mansion built on a
castle theme – truly an Englishman's home. Still, as a
testament to the versatility and novelty of brick, it's a
marvel. If the French-influenced exterior didn't impress
visitors, the huge public rooms would, with their vast
stone fireplaces, brick-vaulted corridors and huge
tapestries. There is basically just one room per floor,
though.
 Interior of Tattershall Castle

The tower is about 66 feet (20 m)

across. There are separate entrances
to the basement, to the ground floor
(Parlour), and to the spiral staircase
leading to the upper floors of the tower.
This suggests that the basement and
ground floor were intended to provide
communal accommodation, while the
three great upper rooms were an
independent private suite or Solar
(room).
● The design was extremely simple,
with four floors, slightly increasing
in size at each level by reductions
in wall thickness. The fireplaces
indicate that the rooms were not
intended to be subdivided, but
were kept as one great room at
each level. One of the four corner
turrets contains the staircase, but
the other three provided extra
accommodation rooms at each
level.
 SALISBURY CATHEDRAL, ENGLAND
Salisbury Cathedral was built
between 1220 and 1258, to
replace the Norman
cathedral at Old Sarum.

Salisbury Cathedral is unusual

for its tall and narrow nave,
which has visual accentuation
from the use of light grey
Chilmark stone for the walls and
dark polished Purbeck marble
for the columns. It has three
levels: a tall pointed arcade, an
open gallery and a small
clerestory.
A coherent system of horizontals and verticals unite in a simple layout in the shape of a cross,
topped by the tallest church spire in Britain.
● Pointed arches and lancet shapes
are everywhere, from the prominent
west windows to the painted
arches of the east end.
● The narrow piers of the cathedral
were made of cut stone rather than
rubble-filled drums, as in earlier
buildings, which changed the
method of distributing the
structure’s weight and allowed for
more light in the interior.
● The piers are decorated with
slender columns of dark gray
Purbeck marble, which reappear in
clusters and as stand-alone
supports in the arches of the
triforium, clerestory, and cloisters.
● Proportions are uniform
throughout.
● One factor that enabled
Salisbury Cathedral to
become so extraordinary
is that it was the first
major cathedral to be
built on an unobstructed
site. The architect and
clerics were able to
conceive a design and lay
it out exactly as they
wanted. Construction
was carried out in one
campaign, giving the
complex a cohesive motif
and singular identity.
LIGHT AND VENTILATION

The ability to get sunlight into a large building with massive

stone walls. Windows are everywhere, and when the light
streams through the clerestory arches and the enormous
west window, the interior turns from drear gray to
transcendent gold.
ST JAMES CHURCH, ENGLAND
 ● The chancel and
nave of St James's
were built around
1435, while its
spectacular,
four-stage rocket of a
spire was the tallest
structure in Britain
when it was
completed in 1515,
standing at 90m.

● It is still impressively
sharp and dynamic,
● The interior is also grand, but austere by comparison. In set off by flying
1536, the vicar also had ideas above his station, leading
buttresses, crockets
the Lincolnshire Rising against Henry VIII, for which he
was executed. and turrets