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An English glossary of medieval mouldings: with an introduction to mouldings c. 1040–1240

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2016

Richard K. Morris
Richard K. Morris*
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University of Warwick
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A comprehensive glossary of medieval mouldings has never been published, a surprising fact which alone justifies the appearance of this article. The foundations for such a study were laid, of course, by the antiquarians and architectural writers of the nineteenth century. Willis (1844) analysed the medieval nomenclature of mouldings. Sharpe published surveys of full-size profiles of an unsurpassed quality, and many other splendid profile drawings are to be found in the various nineteenth-century ‘sketchbook’ publications. Paley (1847) wrote his famous manual, and the number of terms in my glossary which derive from this source is testimony to the lasting significance of his contribution. At the same time Viollet-le-Duc compiled his Dictionnaire, which incorporates invaluable information about French mouldings, albeit scattered through nine volumes. But none of these constitutes a glossary.

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Research Article
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Architectural History , Volume 35 , 1992 , pp. 1 - 17
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Copyright © Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 1992

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Notes

1 Sharpe, E., Supplement to architectural parallels in the 12th and 13th centuries (London, 1848)Google Scholar; the Supplement is a separate volume containing full-size profiles. Also The Mouldings of the six periods of British architecture from the Conquest to the Reformation, 3 parts (London, 1871-74), never completed.

2 E.g. Abbey Square Sketch Book, Architectural Association Sketch Book, John o’Gaunt Sketch Book, etc. Their contents are all indexed in the Victoria, and Museum, Albert, Topographical index to measured drawings of architecture in principal British architectural publications (London, 1908)Google Scholar.

3 Viollet-le-Duc, E., Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du Xle au XVIe siècle, 10 vols (Paris, 1867-70)Google Scholar. See vol. VII, ‘profil’, and additional information occurs in other entries throughout vols I-IX, e.g. ‘arc’, ‘base’, ‘chapiteau’, etc.

4 Morris (1978) and Morris (1979).

5 Fernie, pp. 166-68.

6 Bony, J., ‘Durham et la tradition saxonne’, Etudes d’art offertes à Louis Grodecki, ed. Crosby, S. (Paris 1981), p. 81 sqqGoogle Scholar.

7 Rigoid, p. 122 sqq.

8 Ibid., pp. 108-10; and Deshoulières, F., ‘Essai sur les bases romanes’, Bulletin Monumental, LXXV (1911), pp. 77–101 Google Scholar.

9 Enlart, pp. 325-27.

10 Gardner, p. 578, note 15, and fig. 1.

11 Mencl, V., ‘Tvary klenebních žeber v české gotické architekture’, Zprávy památkové péče, xi (1952), pp. 270–71 Google Scholar, fig. II/8 and 12, e.g. Mnichovo Hradiště and Velehrad.

12 Wilson (1986), p. 107.

13 Ibid., p. 96; and Lasteyrie, 1, p. 295, note 2.

14 For Czechoslovakia, see Menci, V., ‘Vývoj středověkého portálu v českých zemích’, Zprávy památkové péče, xx (1960), pp. 112–13 Google Scholar, Mnichovo Hradiště c. 1250-60; and idem, 1952 (see note 11), p. 271, fig. II/3 and 23. I have noted the grooved roll in Italy, in the brick ribs of S. Niccolo, Treviso, c. 1305.

15 Dehio, vol. 5 (Stuttgart, 1901), pl. 572/4.

16 Jansen, pp. 84-85, and Appendix I for a list.

17 Paley, 3rd rev. ed., p. 33.

18 Gardner, p. 578, note 15.

19 Bongartz, N., Die frühen Bauteile der Kathedral in Troyes (Stuttgart, 1979)Google Scholar, fig. Z8.

20 Hahnloser, H. R. (ed.), Villard de Honnecourt (Vienna, 1935), pl. 65 (32г)Google Scholar.

21 Gardner, p. 582.

22 Lasteyrie, vol. 1, p. 296, fig. 303.

23 Bilson (1909), p. 260sqq.; and Wilson (1986), p. 88 sqq. and fig. 5(a).

24 Lasteyrie, 1, pp. 296-97; and 11, p. 73, fig. 657.

25 For English examples, see Bilson (1909), p. 266 and fig. 13.

26 Mussai, A., Le style gothique de l’ouest de la France, Xlle-XIIle siècles (Paris, 1963), p. 223 Google Scholar sqq.

27 Bilson (1909), p. 258.

28 Wilson (1986), p. 106, note 69.

29 Ibid., p. 88, note 3; p. 98, note 39; p. 104, note 69.