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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 62

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ionate number of triangles, in order to find the centres for all the requisite curves. An admirable modification of this tracery, so easy to set out, and of such great beauty, is exemplified in the door of Holbeach Church, Lincolnshire (see Section I. Decorated, Plate 10) : here the apparent… … Nor will this principle be found applicable Pavement in Westminster Abbey. only to tracery of windows. The beautiful mosaic pavement in the Chapel of Edward the Confessor, Westminster Abbey, is a most remarkable example, of the not always observed but ever active influence of the equilateral…

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