Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 191
lecture xiv.] MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE. 165 being far narrower, would have to be stilted to raise its crown to the level of the others, and its lines of inter- section will consequently be more or less disturbed. > > The difficulty is, in early specimens, increased through the apse being usually round… … Fig. 328. — St. Bartholomew's Church, Fig. 327. — St. John's Chapel, Smithfield. Tower of London. case. We have in London two excellent examples of this apsidal aisle ; that in the chapel of the Tower of London1 (Fig. 327), and that in St. Bartho- lomew's Church in Smithfield (Figs. 328, 329), —…
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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