An analysis of Gothic architecture. Illustrated by a series of upwards of seven hundred examples of doorways, windows, mouldings, roofs, arches, crosses, panels, buttresses, seats, screens, etc., and accompanied with remarks on the several details of an ecclesiastical edifice (1903)
Brandon, Raphael, 1817-1877, Brandon, J. Arthur (Joshua Arthur), 1822-1847 · Edinburgh, J. Grant · leaf 26
* Mr Paley, in his Manual (page 214), mentions that now and then the arches on one side of a nave wererebuilt after the model of the other side; as at Little Casterton Church, Rutland, where tliere are semi-circular arches of the fourteenth century, evidently suited to others of tlu- twelfth. AN… … SECTION I.—OF MASONRY. 1. WINDOWS. TRACERIED window may be justly regarded as a peculiarly distinc-tive characteristic of Gothic Architecture—its own grand conception,and most beautiful enrichment. Well aware of its remarkable suitableness for the display of l»othartistic and constructive skill,…
Architecture, Gothic
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