Building Durham cathedral / Brian K. Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Brian K., 1939- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Durham Cathedral--Design and construction.

Durham Cathedral.

Durham (England)--History.

Durham (England).

Physical Description:

189 pages : illustrations (some colour), plans ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire : The History Press, 2023.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Preliminaries: Stories, Histories, Myths, Measures and Masons

2. Of People: Bishop William and Prior Turgot

3. The Church at Warkworth, Northumberland

4. Durham Cathedral: Assessing the Site and Plan

5. The Columns and Piers

6. The `Twin Towers West-Work' and Building Phases

7. Measurements and Stones: A Reassessment

8. Durham Cathedral in Photographs

TEXT BOXES

1. Sculptural Comparisons

2. Medieval Measures

3. Stonework Replacement

4. A Master Mason?

5. The Cathedral Churchyard

6. Church Measurement

7. Constructional Details

8. The Politics of Early Norman Durham

9. South Transept Details

10. Invisible Details

ILLUSTRATIONS

Frontispiece: Exploring the Cathedral

Figure 1 The Plan: A Naming of the Parts

Figure 2 Schematic Plan of a Sun-Divided Village

Figure 3 Warkworth and its Church, Northumberland

Figure 4a Durham Cathedral and Monastery

Figure 4b Some Details

Figure 5 Eleventh-Century Sketch Plan: A Speculation

Figure 6 Key Elements of Structural Design

Figure 7 The Norman Cathedral: Pattern of Vaults and Roofing

Figure 8 East Walls of Transepts: A Cross Section

Figure 9 Building Phase Analysis

Figure 10a Column Bases of the Nave and the Decorative Scheme

Figure 10b Column Decoration

Figure 11 Columns of the Nave and External Arcade of the Fire

Figure 12 The Norman Cathedral: A Reconstructed Plan

APPENDICES

Appendix 1 Anglo-Saxon Cathedral to Norman Transition

Appendix 2 Great South Doorway Sutures: Masons' Marks

Figure Ap. 2a and b Walling Sutures Adjacent to the Great South Doorway

Appendix 3 Tower Stair of the South Transept

Figure Ap. 3 South Transept Tower Stair: Detail

Appendix 4 Anomalous Interior Arcade Capitals

Figure Ap. 4 Anomalous Interior Arcade Capitals

Appendix 5 Column and Pier Chamfers and Column Decoration

Appendix 6 Dramatis Personae

Appendix 7 Masons' Marks

Figure Ap. 7 Masons' Marks Within Arcading

Appendix 8 Cathedral Plan by R.W. Billings 1842

Figure Ap. 8 Cathedral Plan by R.W. Billings 1842.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781803991184

1803991186

OCLC:

1330688313

Publisher Number:

99993387343