Morning journal and courier., 1892-03-12
THE MECHANICS, COURSE.

Professor ID. Cady Eaton DeHvers the Last Lecture of His Series on English Ecclesiastical Architecture. l
 Professor D. Cady Eaton last evening | delivered the last lecture of his series on | "Enelish Ecclesiastical Architecture" in the Mechanics course at the Sheffield 1 school. The special style considered was .'The Perpendicular" In the three pre- oeding lectures the Norman, early English and decorated styles were treated, but the best specimens of English cathedrals are built in this later style of the perpendicular. By the photographic art we are first taken to the Gloucester cathedral, several views of which were seen in the preceding lec- ture in connection with the development of vaulting. The sereen-work in this ca thedral is the earlist sign of the perpen- diculsr. It is also characterized by a solid fly of masonry. Here is the famous tomb of Edward IT., who is only to be blamed | that he did not strangle in the beginning the wife that afterwards accomplished his own death. His efigy shows mild, kind l ly, but perhaps weak countenance. And here it may be remarked that these ef6gies | are probably true ikenesses, as they were made from wax casts. He apparently did not have the force of character necessary to bear up against adverse circumstances. In his tomb another feature of the per- pendicu1ar is noticed in the complicated vaulting.
 The chapel of Henry VII. that was built out from Westminster Abbey is then shown, and is a | is another chapel built by this king, but which looks no more as if designed for religious pur- poses than Osborn hall does for educational pur- cSsster in ths south of England and which in the days of the Saxon kings was the metropolis not pleasing. as it is long and low and gives the impression of "squattiness.' But the interior if
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 The next series of, pictures showed what #
 justly, said to be the finest representatiye o1
 church architecture in all England-that at York
 York was formerly the metropolis of the nortt
 of England, and up to the end of the eighteenth
 But now it has fallen in point of importance, it.
 chester and the neighboring busy looms at Bir
 city. whers one can worship God in the midst o
 all that is to be contributed by art.
 ] pieces of patchwork in existenee-remarkable
 because it is so artistically patched together
 a1d % S s or
 err, which always seem to me by their quiet, sub | strength of purpose with which the English re
 sisted the popsh influence and at last freed them
 selves from foreign domination. York is saie | to have been built at the time David was writing
 the Psalms. Paulnus was the earliest mission
 ary and from the church that he started her,
 a bishopric arose of which he was made arch
 bishop by the pope The cathedral stand
 among the finest of all the church edifices o l England.
 | Canterbury was the Last cathedral shown
 but time did not permit any extended account o it.
 ! In closing Professor Eaton said that there wa ! no more pleasure in study than in pursuing iE | vestigation in one particular branch of art. N education is complete without it sustains som
 touches of the beauty of the artistic conceptio
 of past ages. sincerely hope that these lecture
 have been conducive to a spirit of studious inves
 tigation Professor Eaton was heartily applaudet
 by the large audience present, which throughou gave him their undivided attention.