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Architecture; an introduction to the history and theory of the art of building (1912)

Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · London: Williams and Norgate · leaf 194

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190 ARCHITECTURE into building, for windows and loopholes of this form appear in the illuminations of MSS., and on the Bayeux tapestry, which is almost certainly an English work (fig. 39). The trefoil arch also makes an early and prominent appearance in Anglo-Saxon works. It occurs on the Missal of… … Fig. 40. found on the side door of Ely Cathedral, and over some sculptured panels of the twelfth century at Lincoln. Fig. 41 is a doorway from the east of France. A remarkable example is the early Gothic west door of Byland Abbey. The question arises whether the trefoil arch is a variety of the…

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