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 76
that in Perpendicular, thehollow was converted into the shallow casement, the char-acter of the moldings suffering in common with all other parts, from the general debase-ment of Architecture; and lastly, that the many beautiful moldings, which at varioustimes made their appearance, may all be… … DOORWAYS. Norman doorways are generally remarkable for excessive richness and elaborate-ness in design. On, perhaps, no other part of their Buildings did the architects ofthose days bestow such care and attention; they seem to have considered no detail so * It is occasionally, though very rarely,…
Architecture, Gothic
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