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abacus aisles angles arcades beautiful belong Beverley Minster Bishop building built buttresses called Canterbury Canterbury Cathedral capitals carried Castle Cathedral chamfer chancel Chapel character chiefly choir clere-storey cloisters College crockets crypt Decorated style door doorways earlier earliest Early English style early Norman east end east window England examples feature fillet flat foliage Fotheringhay frequently Gothic Architecture groined Hall Haseley Henry Iffley instances jambs JEWITT late Norman later period Lincoln masonry Middleton Stoney mixture moldings mullions nave niches Norman period Norman style Northants original ornament Oxford Oxfordshire Oxon panelling parapet parish church Perpendicular style pillars pinnacles plain pointed arch porch quadrangle racter Raunds rebuilt remains Rickman Romsey Abbey roof round Saxon sculpture sedilia shafts shallow shew side sometimes spire square stone storey tooth-ornament tower tracery transepts transition triforium twelfth century usually vault Wadham College wall west end west front Westminster Abbey William Winchester Winchester Cathedral wooden Yorkshire
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Page 2 - SintTruiden, at the end of the eleventh century and the beginning of the twelfth...
Page 174 - THE GENERAL APPEARANCE of Decorated buildings is at once simple and magnificent; simple from the small number of parts, and magnificent from the size of the windows, and the easy flow of the lines of tracery. In the interior of large buildings we find great breadth, and an enlargement of the clerestory windows, with a corresponding diminution of the triforium, which is now rather a part of the clerestory opening than a distinct member of the division. The roofing, from the increased richness of the...
Page 28 - Salisbury] was a prelate of great mind, and spared no expense towards completing his designs, especially in buildings ; 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 beaut}', 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 Hock.
Page 26 - Winchester, the blood dripping from it all the way. Here it was committed to the ground within the tower, attended by many of the nobility, though lamented by few.