Papers read at the Royal Institute of British Architects (1853)
Royal Institute of British Architects · London, Royal Institute of British Architects · leaf 134
ly by going up into the clear-story gallery that we can distinctly trace the character of the original masonry of this first period, and when we do so we find it agree with other masonry of the middle of the eleventh century, such as that in the crypt at Auxerre, in the crypt and apse of St.… … stones, and the projecting and overlapping of the mortar over the edges of the stones : the mortar,, f'rom the excellence ot the lime with which it was made, has become harder than the stone itself ;; the- surface of the stone also bears the marks of the hatchet with which it was dressed. There is…
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