Gothic architecture in England : an analysis of the origin & development of English church architecture from the Norman conquest to the dissolution of the monasteries (1906)
Bond, Francis, d. 1918 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 297
encircling it. The special feature of the shafts is that they are arranged in groups of three ; and that they are constructed in coursed freestone. In the western bays of Worcester nave, which may be as early as 1170, all are of coursed freestone ; some are pear-shaped. The shafts are numerous and… … They occur again at Christ Church, Chichester Retrochoir. Dublin. Their distribution is very remarkable. They are all to the west of a line drawn from Wells to Lichfield § and Chester, and including Christ Church, Dublin ; which we know was built of Somersetshire oolite by masons from Bristol and…
Architecture, Gothic · Architecture · Church architecture
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