An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England, from the Conquest to the Reformation: With a Sketch of the Grecian and Roman Orders |
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Abbey Church Abbot aisles appears arches Architecture architrave battlement beautiful Beverley Minster Blore's Britton's built by Bishop buttresses canopy Canterbury Canterbury Cathedral capitals carved Castle central tower century chancel chapter-house character choir clerestory College Chapel cornice crocketed crypt DECORATED ENGLISH Decorated style door doorways dripstone Early English east end east window engravings examples Exeter Cathedral fillet finished foliage gatehouse Gloucester Gloucester Cathedral Gothic groined hall heads Henry the Seventh's Henry VII inscription John Kent Lady-chapel Lincoln Cathedral Lincolnshire Merton College Minster mouldings mullions nave niches Norman north transept Northamptonshire ogee ornament Oxford Oxfordshire panels Pegge's Sylloge period PERPENDICULAR ENGLISH Perpendicular style Peterborough Cathedral piers pinnacles plain Plate porch quatrefoils rebuilt reign remains ribs rich roof round Salisbury Seventh's Chapel shafts side sometimes specimen spire stone Thornton Abbey tomb tracery transept triforium vault walls west front Westminster Abbey William Winchester Cathedral Windsor York Yorkshire
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Page 341 - A CONCISE GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN GRECIAN, ROMAN, ITALIAN, AND GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE.
Page 279 - Of perpendicular fronts, the same author says, " by far the finest is that of Beverley minster. What the west front of York is to the decorated style, this is to the perpendicular, with this addition, that in this front nothing but one style is seen; all is...
Page 108 - Much of the credit, however, must belong to his successor, who is described by Gervase as " William by name, English by nation, small in body, but in workmanship of many kinds acute and honest.
Page 262 - Flintshire, are curious examples, being a complete chase of cats, rats, mice, dogs, and a variety of imaginary figures, amongst which various grotesque monkeys are very conspicuous. In the latter end of the style, something very analogous to an ornamented frieze is perceived, of which the canopies to the niches, in various works, are examples; and the angels so profusely introduced, in the later rich works, are a sort of cornice ornaments.