An analysis of Gothic architecture. Illustrated by a series of upwards of seven hundred examples of doorways, windows, mouldings, roofs, arches, crosses, panels, buttresses, seats, screens, etc., and accompanied with remarks on the several details of an ecclesiastical edifice (1903)
Brandon, Raphael, 1817-1877 · Edinburgh, J. Grant · leaf 40
examples the heads of two-light windows are filled with flowing tracery : — so endless, indeed, are the varieties in this species of decoration, that we are as much astonished at the great effort of imagination which could, in a com- soitth fleet chdrch, kENt. paratively short space of time,… … in many instances, have shafts, with bases and capitals characteristically molded and enriched. In some specimens, also, the ball-flower is introduced with admirable effect, studding the hollows of both mullions and tracery in rich profusion (Section I. Decorated, Plate 38). t Specimens of some of…
Architecture, Gothic
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