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Rh :In Spanish pointed buildings of the early I3th cent., 195.

Vaux-sous-Laon, church, façade, 104 (cut).

Venice, church of the Frari, piers, 189; east end, 191.
 * Ducal palace, capitals, 297.

Vercelli, church of S. Andrea, vaulting system Gothic, 181.

Verona, church of Sta. Anastasia, vaulting system, 189.
 * Tower of the Scaligeri, 192, 193 (cut).

Verula, abbey church, 195; its chevet and vaulting ribs, 196.

Vézelay, abbey church, sculpture, 249; capitals of the porch, 268.

Villeneuve-sur-Verberie, ch., rib section, 221 (cut).

Viollet-le-Duc, on Gothic architecture, 7; on the Greek elements in Gothic sculpture, 24; on the piers and vaults of the cath. of Paris, 54; on the construction of buttresses, 112; on the relation between abacus and capital, 203; on the sculpture of Chartres, 253; on the antagonism between decorative and pictorial art, 37.

Vitet, on the cathedral of Noyon, 38.

Vitruvius, mathematical formulas of, 21.

, gradual reduction in Gothic architecture, 18; general character in Gothic buildings, 19, 85-92.
 * Roman, 10.
 * Romanesque, 11.

Wall openings, in Gothic buildings, 19, 85-92; grouped, 87; in English pointed architecture, 157, 164; English, compared with French, 149. See also Clerestory; Pier-arches; Windows.

Wall painting, 298-300; compared with stained glass in the character of its design, 301; Italian, 305-309.

Walpole, Horace, his interest in Gothic, 3.

Wells, cathedral, vaulting and structural relations, 150 (cut); compared with the Abbaye-aux- Dames at Caen, 151; external aspect, 153; the sculpture contemporary with great Italian sculpture, 247; nave and transept substantially Norman structures, 313 ;—abaci, 232 (cut); capitals of the west facade, 228, of the transept and eastern end of nave, 230, 231 (cut);—facade, 164;—plinths of north porch, 234 (cut);—portals, 285; sculpture of the west front, 284-287 (cut), compared with French work, 286, foliate sculpture, 292;—string-course profiles, 235. Westminster Abbey, pier arches, 149; the most Gothic structure in England, 154; capitals, 231; absence of sculpture, 292.

Whewell, his Notes on German Churches, 4.

Whitby Abbey, Early English in form, but Romanesque in principle, 141; pier arches, 149; bases from clerestory of choir, 233 (cut).

Willis, his Architecture of the Middle Ages and Essay on Vaulting, 4; on the stilting of the longitudinal arch in clerestory vaults, 68. Winchester, cathedral, length of the nave, 167.

Windows, dormer, in spires, 114.
 * Wheel, further developed in France than in England, 160.
 * Of the cath. of Reims, apsidal chapels, 88, 89 (cut);—the ch. of St. Remi at Reims, 96.
 * In English pointed architecture, 157.
 * Italian, 193;—of the ch. of St. Francis of Assisi, 182;—the cath. of Florence, 187; the ch. of Sta. Croce. 185.
 * See also Clerestory; Stained Glass; Tracery; Wall openings.

Worcester, cathedral, the smaller transept not true Gothic, 153; tower, 165.

Wren, Sir Christopher, his taste for the pseudo-classic orders, 3.

, cathedral, the transept not true Gothic, 154; transept facade, 160; tower, 165; chapter-house, 168.