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 88
be noticed ; many instances of it may be found in Perpendicular work,and it would appear to be a corruption of the Decorated filleted shaft. All the capshave double bells, but are otherwise as irregular in their construction as the moldingsof the arch and jambs. They are all octagonal, and in the… … 74 ANALYSIS OF GOTHIC AKCHITECTURE. outer base is exaggerated to such an extent, as to be nearly equal to the shaft in height.The buttresses and shafts which flank the doorway, however elegant they may appearat first sight, must be considered as instances of a debased taste, which sought moreafter…
Architecture, Gothic
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