Gothic

Interior Elements
Lecture 37

LOVELY SCHOOL OF
ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
 LSAD
Learning Outcomes

• Students will able to learn &

appreciate different types of
Interior elements used in
Gothic style.
 Hugh Herland, Westminster Hall, London

A secular building, this great

hall is the only surviving part
of the old palace of Westminster.

Its barn- like design is

made spectacular by the great
wooden roof of the type called
hammer beam,
for its projecting,
bracket- like elements.

The windows between the roof trusses and at the end wall are rich with Perpendicular tracery.
 Hôtel- Dieu, Beaune, Burgundy, France, from 1443.

The great hall served as a

hospital ward.

Booth- like curtained

enclosures on each side
contained beds.

The wooden barrel- vaulted

roof uses tie beams and
vertical king posts to contain
the outward and downward
thrusting forces.

The painting of the wood and the glass of the windows add color.
William Vertue, Henry VII Chapel,
Westminster Abbey, London

The most elaborate example

of English Perpendicular Gothic
was originally built for the private
use of the king.

The stone vaulting of the chapel

carries the concept of the
multi- ribbed vault,
which are covered with
such rich tracery.
Siena Cathedral, Italy
Italian medieval cathedrals
tended to be conservative in
construction, and semicircular arches
were usually preferred
to the pointed forms.

To compensate for this simplicity,

spectacular surface decoration
was incorporated into the buildings.

The form of black and white striped

marble walls,and colorful vaulting.
King’s College Chapel,
Cambridge, England

A simple rectangular space with

walls of Perpendicular tracery
hold richly colored stained glass

and the ceiling is composed of

fan vaulting.
Pieter Saenredam,
Interior of S. Bavo’s Church in Haarlem

This painting shows the simple

white surfaces flooded with the
cool light from the clear glass
windows that are typical of the
Gothic churches of medieval
Holland.
Haddon Hall, Derbyshire,
England, 14th century.

This banqueting hall, with its

stone walls, wooden gable roof
with tie- beams, and pointedarch
windows,
was the gathering space.

The wooden paneling on the lower

walls extends across one end of the
room to other.

It supports a gallery, traditionally

the place of entertainers.

The window niche seating, table,

and chest are typical pieces of medieval furniture.
 House of Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France
In this house of a wealthy merchant,
almost a small palace,
the hall or principal room of the
main living floor is
Ornamented with an
elaborately carved
fireplace overmantel.

Each of the doors of

wood paneling is
set in an elaborately
Carved frame
while a highly decorative
cornice molding tops the wall.

The ceiling is a simple structure of exposed wood beams.

Plan of the House of Jacques Coeur.
The floor plan of the house
shows

the irregular grouping

typical of medieval planning.

Stairs are
winding and utilitarian
rather than ornamental