The principles of Gothic ecclesiastical architecture. [With] Alphabetical index, by T.J. Mackrill1849 - 120 pages |
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Abbey Church ancient angles Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon architecture appears arcades architecture architrave beam braces Brixworth building buttresses Canterbury Cathedral capitals chancel chancel arch Chapel choir church of St clerestory compartments consists construction corbel crocketted crypt Decorated Derbyshire detail divided doorway dripstone Early English east end ecclesiĉ Ecclesiastical embattled erected exhibits external face fifteenth century foliage fourteenth century Gothic groined head Herefordshire hood moulding horizontal imposts jambs Kent Lancet Leicestershire lights Lincoln Cathedral Lincolnshire masonry mullions nave nave and chancel Norman style Northamptonshire numerous occur ogee ornamental Oxford Oxford Cathedral Oxfordshire panel panel-work parapet pier arches pinnacles plain pointed arch principal projecting quatrefoils rafters ribs rich Roman round rude Salisbury Salisbury Cathedral sculptured semicircular arches semicircular-headed shafts shire soffits sometimes south aisle south side spandrels specimen spire spring square square-headed stone stringcourse surmounted tower tracery transept trefoil twelfth century vaulting Vide vignette wall Warwickshire whilst Winchester Cathedral wooden roof Worcester Cathedral zig-zag
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Page 153 - Northamptonshire. space between this and the inner mouldings of the pointed arch is filled with a blank quatrefoil and sculptured foliage, the jambs being ornamented with the tooth moulding, and on each side are four detached shafts with plain but bold moulded capitals. A doorway in the ruined church of Lanark, North Britain, exhibits the round moulding with a fillet on the face, and the capitals, (which are all that remain of two nook shafts,) are richly sculptured.
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