IMAGES OF MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE


ENGLAND: LONDON: The Temple Church




Floorplan

Adapted from Godfrey p.


Exterior

Courtesy of Kristen Chiacchia/ Spring, 2000

Nave from South
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Courtesy of Kristen Chiacchia/ Spring, 2000

Chancel from South
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Courtesy of Kristen Chiacchia/ Spring, 2000

East end of chancel
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Interior
Nave
Note that some of the Purbeck Marble had faded in the earlier view.
The darker color in the newer view is characteristic of new Purbeck Marble

Adapted From Bond,Early Christian Architecture

Nave in 1913 (from South-West)
Note tomb effigies on Floor

Screen-sized Version 


Courtesy of Kristen Chiacchia/ Spring, 2000

Nave in 2000 (West side)

Screen-sized Version 

Chancel

Adapted From Bond,Early Christian Architecture

Chancel in 1913 (to West)

Screen-sized Version


Adapted from Godfrey,E

View to East

Screen-sized Version 


Courtesy of Kristen Chiacchia/ Spring, 2000

East End in 2000 

Screen-sized Version 


 
 
Tombs

Adapted from Prior & Gardiner
Medieval Figure Sculpture in England, p 558

Purbeck Marble effigy of a Knight, ca 1230
(Photo from 1912- before effigies were damaged in WWII)

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Adapted from Prior & Gardiner
Medieval Figure Sculpture in England, p 558

Purbeck Marble effigy of a Knight, ca 1245 
Note Crossed Legs
(Photo from 1912- before effigies were damaged in WWII)

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Preliminary Bibliography:

Addison, G.G., The Temple Church. London, 1843.

Baylis, T.H. The Temple Church  and the Chapel of St. Anne. London, 1893.

Billings, R.W. Architectural Illustrations and Account of the Temple Church, London. London, 1838.

Dove, W. "The Temple Church and its Restoration."  In Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archeological Society, 1967, pp 164-72.

Essex, W. and S. Smike. The Architectural Embellishments and Painted Glass of the Temple Church, London. London, 1845.

Gardam, C.L.M. "Restorations of the Temple Church, London"Iin Medieval Art, Architecture and Archeology in London , edited by Lindy Grant. The British Archeological Association Conference Transactions For the Year 1984.  Leeds, Manley and Son, 1990.  Pages  101-117.

Godfrey, W.H. "Recent Discoveries at the Temple, London, and Nones on the Topography of the Site." Archaeologica, XCV, 1953.

Herd, C.O. Notes on the Restoration of the Temple Church (1185-1240). London, 1956.

Lambert, Elie. L'architecture des templiers Paris : A. et J. Picard, 1955 (In French)

Lewer, David. The Temple Church in London . London : Historical Publications, 1997 ISBN: 0948667486

___________ "Restoration and the Temple Church," Transactions, Ancient Monuments Society, New Series  XVI (London 1968-9), 23-31.

Mordant Crook, J.  "The Restoration of the Temple Church: Ecclesiology and Recrimination." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (British) VIII , 1965. 39-51.

Oswald, A. "The Temple Church Restored." Country Life, CXXIV (1958), 1104

Pevsner,Nikolaus. London: The Cities of London and Westminster. Revised by Breidget Cherry. London: Penguin Press, 1973. pp. 313-6

Prior, Edward and Arthur Gardiner. An Account of Medieval Figure-Sculpture in England. Cambridge,: University Press, 1912

St. Aubynm J.P. "An Account of the Repairs at the Temple Church." Transactions of the Royal Insatitute of British Architects, 1864. Pages 153-5.

Williamson, P. "The West Doorway of the Temple Church, London." Burlington Magazine, CXXVII (October, 1985), 716.

Zarnecki, G. "The West Doorway of the Temple Church in  London. " Beiträge zur Kunst des Mittlealters, Festschrift für Hans Wentzel zum 60 Geburtstag. Berlin, 1975. Pages 246-53.
 



 

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