Chapter V

Valence, William de, effigy of, i. 180, 311.

Vandalism, modern, i. 35.

Vaulting, groined, i. 46;
ii. 79, 136, 149, 153, 157, 160, 228;
where avoided, i. 47;
thickness of wall to resist thrust of, 49;
endeavour to perfect the system of, 51;
comprising two bays of nave, common in German round-arched churches, 62;
sexpartite, _ibid._;
ii. 196;
introduction of the pointed arch into, i. 64, 76, 77;
ii. 180;
perfected, i. 147;
ribbed, rationale of, 238, 246, 274, 344;
to the nave of St. Stephen’s, Caen, ii. 67;
Norman, 79, 87;
round-arched, 153, 168, 171, 191;
of the polygon, 162, 172;
of oblong spaces, 163, 177, 205;
of aisles passing round a polygonal figure, 164;
a circular building with a central pillar, 166, 184;
a polygon with a central pillar, 168;
stilting, 163-165, 172, 183, 205;
moulded ribs to the intersections of, 175;
with raised ridges, 171, 176, 186, 218;
with level ridges, 177, 183, 186, 209;
the _dome_, 168-170;
new form of, 171;
over wide spaces, 180;
triangular spaces, 175;
irregular spaces, _ibid._;
stilting the wall-ribs in, 187;
spaces, surfaces of, 187, 195, 269;
octopartite, 196;
quinquepartite, 197;
decapartite, _ibid._;
dodecapartite, _ibid._;
of two chapels near the west end, Lincoln, 198;
of the crypt, Glasgow, 200;
choir, Lincoln, 202;
chapter-house, Lichfield, 203;
octagonal kitchen, Durham, _ibid._;
Caudebec, Lady Chapel, hexagon with pendant, _ibid._;
Lady Chapel, Salisbury, 204;
presbytery, Ely, 209,
bays, west of the crossing, Westminster Abbey, _ibid._;
chapter-house and Lady Chapel, Chester, 210;
chapter-house, Wells, _ibid._;
Exeter Cathedral, 211;
cloisters, Westminster Abbey, _ibid._;
Liernes, 182, 211-213;
Ely Cathedral, 212;
Nantwich Church, _ibid._;
nave, Westminster, _ibid._;
Crosby Hall and Eltham Palace, 213;
choir, Gloucester, 214;
nave, Winchester, _ibid._;
half-height plans of, 216;
fan, see Fan-vaulting.

Vaulting-ribs, development of, ii. 191-193, 209;
to set out, 192, 193;
determining the plans of abaci, 207;
repetition of the same curve for the, 216;
a curve of two centres for, _ibid._;
in fan-vaulting, 217.

Vaults, i. 19, 47;
barrel, 51;
ii. 153;
groined, i. 49, 52, 53, 58, 238, 240, 241;
ii. 79, 149, 153, 157-160, 305;
square groined, i. 240;
in early Irish remains, ii. 14, 21;
wagon, 87, 89, 93;
over wide spaces, 180;
irregular spaces, _ibid._;
demi-vaults at Gloucester, 121;
rendered ornamental, 138;
Angevine, 171;
“domed up,” 187.

Venice, St. Mark’s, i. 44, 82, 180, 337;
western portals at, ii. 144, 257, 264, 271, 273, 278, 285, 306.

Venice, Ducal palace, i. 266.

Verona, church of St. Zeno, i. 44.

Verulam, i. 184;
ii. 95;
stones and tiles from, 96;
Roman tiles from, 97.

Vesta, temple of, at Rome and Tivoli, ii. 237.

Vezelay, Romanesque vaulting of, i. 63;
abbey of, 327.

Via Nomentana, Rome, tomb in the, ii. 243.

Via Prænestina, Torre dei Schiavi in the, ii. 237.

Viollet le Duc, ii. 198.

Vitale, San, church of, ii. 259.

Vitruvius, ii. 10, 237;
respecting the Etruscan temples, 301.

Vogüé, Count de, i. 336;
ii. 7, 305.

Voluted capital, ii. 302.

Vortigern, ii. 13.

W

Wagon-head vaults, i. 238;
ii. 87;
at St. Stephen’s, Nevers, 89;
Tower Chapel, 93.

Wales, the transition in, i. 341.

Walkelin de Ferres, i. 14, 120.

Walkelyn, Bishop, ii. 104.

Walpole, Horace, ii. 316.

Walsingham, Alan de, work of, i. 276.

Waltham Abbey, i. 31, 314;
roof of, ii. 100, 120, 124, 126.

Waltham Cross, i. 189, 314.

Waltheof, ii. 59.

Walton, West, detached tower, i. 194.

Warehouses of Germany, i. 21.

Warmington Church, i. 193.

Wells Cathedral, i. 22, 140;
sculpture at, 202;
façade, 165, 187;
north porch, 167;
bishop’s palace, 287;
group of colonnettes at, ii. 148;
choir, 216;
chapter-house, 210.

Welsh groins, ii. 173, 199, 214.

Western Empire, architecture of, i. 11;
civilisation and arts, ii. 6, 296.

Western Europe, churches of, i. 51;
thirteenth century work in, 137;
buildings of, in the twelfth century, ii. 7;
carved ornamentation of, 8;
architecture of, in A.D. 1000, 62.

Westminster Abbey, i. 31, 140, 174, 273, 286, 351;
ii. 35, 189, 311;
bar-tracery, i. 163;
geometrical system of tracery, 276;
window-glazing, 252;
soffit of rere-arch richly panelled, 283;
eastern portions, 343;
chapter-house, 177, 287;
work of Edward the Confessor, 209;
St. Catharine’s Chapel, 310;
study of, _ibid._;
works of Henry III. and Edward I. _ibid._;
sculpture, 311;
Henry VII.’s Chapel, Torrigiano’s work, 312;
enamel and mosaic work, retabulum of the altar, iron and bronze work, 312;
church refounded by King Edward, ii. 68;
description of, by contemporary writers, _ibid._, 69;
by a writer in the thirteenth century, 70;
bases found under the altar space of Edward the Confessor’s church, 72;
capitals in the Confessor’s buildings, 85;
aisle of apse, 183;
chapter-house vaulting, 184, 185, 200, 205;
clerestory vaulting, 187;
bosses, 195;
Chapel of St. Faith, 197, 207;
vaulting of the eastern part of, 205;
bayswest of the crossing, 209;
cloisters, 211, 216;
Henry VII.’s Chapel, 220-227, 311.

Westminster Hall, i. 314; ii. 324.

Whitby Abbey, i. 201;
rere-arch windows, 286.

Wilfrid, St., ii. 31, 99.

Willis, Professor, on vaulting, i. 344;
ii. 156, 202, 217, 219;
history of Canterbury Cathedral, 28, 66;
St. Stephen’s at Caen, 66;
York, 103.

Winchelsea, choir at, i. 343.

Winchester Cathedral, i. 202;
ii. 103, 115, 128;
eastern chapels, i. 127, 144, 286;
as rebuilt in the reign of Edgar, ii. 33;
gallery across transepts, 66;
capitals in the crypt, 85;
transepts, aisles of, 89, 105;
piers of transepts, 105;
capitals, arch-orders, windows, etc., 106;
triforium piers, _ibid._;
central tower, 107;
crypt, _ibid._;
nave, 108, 214;
western portals, 216.

Window-glass, i. 19.

Windows, i. 19, 256, 257, 274, 276;
ii. 136;
clerestory, i. 51;
determined by vaulting, 63;
pointed arch used for, 66;
leading architectural features, 147, 158;
traceried and mullioned, 160, 162;
circular, 161;
Italian, French, and German, 206;
system of constructing, 228, 250, 277;
in secular buildings, 263;
reason why so little used in Romanesque work, 250;
so much used in developed Gothic, 251;
Early English, grouping of, in domestic buildings, 251;
introduction of mullions into, 252;
arches of, their filling in, 253;
arched form not binding, _ibid._;
splayed inside and out, 278;
splay mainly internal, 278, 282;
in Norman transitional work and Early English, 279;
rere-arch, 281;
in early Irish remains, ii. 22;
in round towers, 25;
in Anglo-Saxon work, 37, 42, 43, 47;
belfry, 38, 52;
wooden lintels to, 43;
development of, 80, 81, 151;
in church on the Castle-hill, Dover, 81;
domestic, _ibid._;
at St. Alban’s, 102;
traceried, 142, 152.

Windsor, St. George’s Chapel, ii. 220.

Wolstan, St., ii. 59, 122.

Wolstan, Winchester Cathedral described by, ii. 34.

Wood-carving, i. 22, 299.

Worcester, lost hall at, i. 343.

Worcester Cathedral, i. 202;
ii. 122;
crypt and chapter-house, 122, 167, 218.

World, coming to an end of, in A.D. 1000, ii. 62.

Worms, domical church at, ii. 277.

Worth, church at, Sussex, ii. 19, 38, 44.

Wren, Sir Christopher, ii. 284, 285.

Wykeham, work of, i. 277;
at Winchester, ii. 108.