 | William Henry Rich Jones - England - 1880 - 304 pages
...introduction of the pointed arch and its accompanying details. Malmesbury speaks of his edifices as having " surpassing beauty, the courses of stone being so correctly laid that the joints deceive the eye, and leading it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block."... | |
 | Edward Hungerford Goddard - Natural history - 1881 - 806 pages
...constitute an additional indication of Bishop Roger's handiwork, the character of which is thus noted by William of Malmesbury : ' He erected extensive...the eye and leads it to imagine that the entire wall consists of a single block.' " The chancel is low and consists of two bays, arched over with bold transverse... | |
 | Thomas Rickman - Architecture - 1881 - 450 pages
...; which may be seen in other places, but more particularly at Salisbury and Malmesbury ; for there he erected extensive edifices at vast cost, and with...being so correctly laid that the joint deceives the ege, and leads it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block. He built anew the church... | |
 | John Henry Parker - Architecture - 1882 - 288 pages
...which may be seen in other places, but more particularly at Salisbury and at Malmesbury, for there he erected extensive edifices at vast cost, and with...so correctly laid that the joint deceives the eye, THE EAELY NORMAN PERIOD. Winchester Cathedral, AD 1079—1093. and leads it to imagine that the whole... | |
 | John Henry Parker - Architecture, Gothic - 1888 - 412 pages
...be seen in other places, but more particularly at Salisbury and at Malmesbury, for there he ereeted extensive edifices at vast cost, and with surpassing...deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single Hock." The buildings here alluded to were erected between 1115 and... | |
 | Thomas Tapper - Music - 1891 - 360 pages
...prelate of great mind, and spared no expense toward completing his designs, especially in buildings He erected extensive edifices at vast cost and with...deceives the eye and leads it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block." [The builder labors daily ; and daily labor alone amounts... | |
 | John Henry Parker - Architecture - 1892 - 286 pages
...which may be seen in other places, but more particularly at Salisbury and at Malmesbury, for there he erected extensive edifices at vast cost, and with surpassing beauty, the courses of ttone being so correctly laid that the joint deceives the eye, THE EAJtLY NOKMAlf PERIOD. St. John's... | |
 | William (of Malmesbury) - Great Britain - 1895 - 604 pages
...which may be seen in other places, but more particularly at Salisbury and at Malmesbury. For there he erected extensive edifices, at vast cost, and with...deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block. He built anew the church of Salisbury, and beautified it... | |
 | Philip Walsingham Sergeant - Cathedrals - 1898 - 164 pages
...Malmesbury says of the Later Norman masonry at Salisbury, when he speaks of " the courses of stone so correctly laid that the joint deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block." The juncture of the two works at Winchester can be easily... | |
 | John Henry Parker - Architecture, Gothic - 1900 - 288 pages
...which may be seen in other places, but more particularly at Salisbury and at Malmesbury, for tbere he erected extensive edifices at vast cost, and with...of •stone being so correctly laid that the joint deceive* the eye, Winchester Cathedral, AD 1079—1093. and leads it to ima9ine that the whole wall... | |
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Malmesbury. For there he erected extensive edifices, at vast cost, and with surpassing beauty; the courses of stone being so correctly laid that the joint deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block. 
