The Romanesque Abbey of St Peter at Gloucester

The Romanesque Abbey of St Peter at Gloucester

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Heighway, Carolyn
Other Authors: Bryant, Richard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Havertown : Oxbow Books, Limited, 2019
Subjects:
Gloucester Cathedral > History.
Cathedrals > England > Gloucester > History.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Book Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • Photographic and drawing credits
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • The eastern arm
  • The crypt
  • The choir, ambulatory and tribune gallery
  • In situ survivals of the upper part of the choir
  • A stone vault
  • Groin vault and clerestory windows
  • Barrel vault without clerestory windows
  • The eastern chapels
  • Windows and nook shafts
  • The transepts and tower
  • The transeptal turrets
  • The north transept
  • The decoration of the north transept gable
  • The transept vaults
  • The south transept
  • The tower
  • The nave
  • The north aisle
  • The south aisle
  • The west end
  • Nature of western wall
  • South porch
  • Romanesque claustral buildings
  • The inner parlour
  • The chapter house
  • The dorter
  • The refectory
  • The outer parlour or locutorium
  • The abbot's chapel
  • The 12th-century abbot's tower
  • The 'loggia'
  • The abbot's tower: Romanesque detail
  • St Mary's Gate
  • Romanesque polychromy
  • Romanesque carving and decoration
  • Sculptural carving
  • Decorated capitals
  • Carved decoration reused architecturally in the standing structure
  • Other carved decoration

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