1. The Vocabulary of Late Gothic Style

2. Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, England, 1089-1499
I. Context for Late Gothic architecture in Europe ( ) 
Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, England,
west end (façade)
east end

3. Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, England, 1089-1499
I.  
Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, England,
view west from choir to nave
interior of choir

4. I. A. Nationalism on the rise, especially in England (100 Years’ War), and flourishing regional schools
Hundred Years’ War ( ) coincides with rise of the Perpendicular Style

5. Choir of Wells Cathedral, England, 1310
I. C. Immanent evolutionary processes: late phases are aesthetically more complex
Choir of Wells Cathedral, England, 1310
Brunswick Cathedral, Germany, 1469

6. Gloucester Cathedral today begun in Romanesque after Norman Invasion
II. English tradition: English heterogeneity in architecture
A. What aspects of Gloucester Cathedral are typical of Christian architecture in England? 6.
Gloucester Cathedral today
begun in Romanesque after Norman Invasion
Gloucester as an Anglo-Saxon monastery
reconstruction

7. 7. Romanesque (Norman) Early English Gothic Late English Gothic
II. A. 7.
Romanesque (Norman)
Early English Gothic
Late English Gothic
Salisbury Cathedral
Gloucester Cathedral
Durham Cathedral

8. Gloucester Cathedral – Romanesque (Norman) beginnings
II. B. What architectural characteristic of the nave of Gloucester Cathedral are Romanesque and which
Gothic?
Gloucester Cathedral – Romanesque (Norman) beginnings
Romanesque (Norman) nave
Romanesque (Norman) Gloucester
(still remains under Gothic additions

9. Gloucester Cathedral – Romanesque (Norman) beginnings
II. B.
Gloucester Cathedral – Romanesque (Norman) beginnings
Romanesque (Norman) nave

10. Romanesque nave elevation Romanesque Durham Cathedral
II. B. 1. Romanesque sophistication: how Romanesque is the nave elevation ( )?
Gloucester Cathedral
Romanesque nave elevation
Romanesque Durham Cathedral

11. Early English Gothic nave Early English Gothic vault
II. B. Gothic Structure – What French Gothic structural expedients are present in Gloucester’s early
English Gothic nave vault and which are not? 8.
Early English Gothic nave
Early English Gothic vault
Salisbury Cathedral
Gloucester Cathedral

12. Gloucester Cathedral – nave nave seen from cloister
II. B.
Gloucester Cathedral – nave
Romanesque nave elevation w/ Gothic vaults added
nave seen from cloister

13. III. Late Gothic style: the birth of a unique Gothic aesthetic in Gloucester’s east half (transept + choir):
the English Perpendicular style
Gloucester Cathedral

14. Gloucester Cathedral choir
III. A. Origins: What are characteristics of the Perpendicular style and what are the roots in the laicization
in Late Gothic style? 1. mullions
Gloucester Cathedral choir

15. Eleanor crosses (microarchitecture) Gloucester Cathedral choir
III. B. 2. repeated outlines of canopied niches
Eleanor crosses (microarchitecture)
Gloucester Cathedral choir

16. Gloucester Cathedral choir
III. A. 3. liernes (short decorative ribs)
Gloucester Cathedral choir
tunnel vault with mesh of dense ribs

17. Gloucester Cathedral - Choir
III. B. Aesthetic effects: How does the articulation of interiors in Perpendicular architecture subordinate
detail to overall effect?
Gloucester Cathedral - Choir

18. Gloucester Cathedral – choir vault
III. B.
Gloucester Cathedral – choir vault

19. Gloucester Cathedral – Lady Chapel
III. B. 1. How does the more flattened four-center arch help maintain perpendicularity?
Gloucester Cathedral – Lady Chapel

20. Gloucester Cathedral choir
III. B. 2. Where is Gothic verticality finally released?
Gloucester Cathedral choir

21. Gloucester Cathedral Cloister, 1351-64
III. B. 3. Fan vaults - How does their design help achieve unity between walls, windows, & vaulted ceiling?
Gloucester Cathedral Cloister,

22. Gloucester Cathedral cloister
III. B. 3.
Gloucester Cathedral cloister

23. Gloucester Cathedral – fan vaults in cloister
III. B. 3.
Gloucester Cathedral – fan vaults in cloister

24. Rose window, Reims Cathedral, France
IV. Theory: How can Perpendicular Gothic be reconciled with the theological speculation about the
spiritual significance of light (Gothic theory)?
Rose window, Reims Cathedral, France
Gloucester Cathedral cloister fan vaults

25. Gloucester Cathedral choir
IV.
Gloucester Cathedral choir