GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

GOTHIC

FRANCE 12TH TO 16TH CENTURY

GEOGRAPHICAL

West of Europe land divided into by River Loire

Ile de France

King Hugh Caper

or Royal Domain- an old district where Paris was

the capital became the headquarters of the Kings
of France, the place where the pointed arch was
introduced from the Muslims was brought by the
early Crusades.
Christians united against the Muslims and send
Crusades
Ruler of the country

Feudal system

Practiced during this period

Black Death

death of large number of population which slowed

the construction of buildings
Lofty vaults
High pitched roof
Western towers
Tapering spires, pinnacles
Flying buttresses
Tracery windows
French term, lasted from 1150 to 1500 AD.

RELIGIOUS

ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER

Gothic style or Style Ogivale

Three stages

NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL,PARIS (1163-1250 AD)

12th century Primaire or Gothique a

lancettes, period of pointed arches and
geometric tracery windows and transition
from Romanesque began in Ile de France,
Sens, and Senlis
13th century Secondaire or Rayonnant,
characterized by circular windows with
wheel tracery, as in Amiens, Rheims and
Bourges
14th century tertiare or flamboyant ,
from the flame-like or free flowing tracery
windows at S. Ouens, albi , Rouen, Dieppe.
One of the oldest Gothic cathedrals in France done
by Bishop Maurice de Sully
The plan is on bent axial plan with typical
wide nave, double aisles, transepts of small
projection in line with the aisle and a
notable chevet with double aisle and

CHARTRES CATHEDRAL (1194-1260 AD)

RAYONNANT ,GOTHIC 1230

surrounding chapels between the

buttresses
West faade serve as model for other
churches
Has deep recessed portals with encircling
tiers of statued niches
Central doorway is divided by pillars with
statue of Christ while above stretches a
band of statues of kings
Central wheel 42 ft in diameter
Flanked by high coupled windows
The plan has short nave, strong marked aisled
transept, each provided with towers
two western towers
two eastern towers
and a central tower
-Chevet is built above the crypt of the older
Romanesque church
-The spire of the north tower is one of the most
beautiful in Europe
-Crowned by quadripartite vault Known for its 160
windows of stained glass
-Tracery windows were the striking features
-Three level section with triforium was derived
from High Gothic

FLAMBOYANT 14TH CENTURY

SECULAR BUILDINGS COUNTRY HOUSES:

CHATEAU DE JOSSELIN

Castle at Carcassone-

Hotel de Ville at Compiegne 15th century AD .

-Clearstory was filled with interlocking bar tracery

and the back wall of the triforium was light to
create the effect of a great sheet of glass in the
upper level.
The end of the Hundred Years War marked the
rapid rebuilding of structures and architectural
developments in France.
- circular towers, ogee door- heads, mullioned
windows
-Traceried parapets, steep roofs with dormer
windows structure typical in France
-built to house garrison where rectangular
enclosures with corner towers.
-Built as a defence during the Hundred Years War
-feudal lords leave their castles and lived in houses
known as hotel-planned, as in the country, round a
court, with elaborate faade facing the street

BRITISH ISLES GOTHIC

Gothic

reached England in the 1160s

The early Gothic of west and north

-were cosmetic rather than structural. Gothic veneer

was applied to the walls
- the English prefer rich mouldings and plentiful
encrustations of polished shafts of marble. They
have no particular fetish of vaults. Instead they used
timber roofs
-Early English
-Decorated
-Perpendicular

Division of British Gothic

Canterbury Cathedral

Ely Cathedral