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The Cambridge Manuals of Science and
Literature
THE GROUND PLAN OF THE
ENGLISH PARISH CHURCH
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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C. F. CLAY, Manager
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THE GROUND PLAN
OF THE ENGLISH
PARISH CHURCH
BY
A. HAMILTON THOMPSON
M.A., F.S.A.
Cambridge:
at the University Press
1911
Cambridge:
PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
With the exception of the coat of arms at the foot, the design on thetitle page is a reproduction of one used by the earliest known Cambridgeprinter, John Siberch, 1521
PREFACE
There is as yet no book entirely devoted to the development of the planof the parish church in England, and the body of literature which bearsupon the subject is not very accessible to the ordinary student. Thepresent volume is an attempt to indicate the main lines on which thatdevelopment proceeded. It is obvious that, from necessary considerationsof space, much has been omitted. The elevation of the building, and thetreatment of its decorative features, window-tracery, sculpture, etc.,belong to another and wider branch of architectural study, in which theparish church pursues the same line of structural development as thecathedral or monastic church, and the architectural forms of thetimber-roofed building follow the example set by the larger churcheswith their roofs of stone. To this side of the question much attentionhas been