Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1998. Vol. 2. Eger Journal of English Studies.(Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 26)

Studies - Endre Abkarovits: Teaching the Englishness of English Gothic cathedral architecture

atmosphere excluding the outside world, while English stained glass windows let the light come in. Illustration: The groundplans of Amiens and Lincoln Many paintings were comissioned for churches and palaces around the middle of the 13th century, but later almost all the painting on a larger scale has vanished. Frescoes and altarpieces were destroyed in churches by the Puritans, usually only fragments survive. It would have been easier for illuminated manuscripts to survive, as was the case with French books, but as Henry III was not a bibliophile, no royal manuscripts date from his time. (And not much from the following periods either.) (Martindale: 131) Much of the sculpture is lost in England. The doorways were never so richly decorated sculpturally as in France. Even the cathedral facades that 55