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 95
areof extraordinary beauty, with complex arrangement ofshafts. At Boxgrove Church, Sussex,! those on theiiortli arc most daringly detached from the central pier,while on the south, small channels have been sunk for theirreception : in l)oth cases Purbeck marble, richly polislicd,kmox iiKAv,… … ARCADES. SI foliated caps. At St Albans, the piers are magnificently clustered, with four detachedand twelve engaged shafts. Even in Early English work, however, the shafts were notalways detached : in St Martins, Leicester,* we find four small shafts engaged, betweenfour other and larger ones,…
Architecture, Gothic
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