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 99
l{Ki>i.mvK clirncH, SvrrtM.K. BUTTRESSES. 85 niches in the upper stages, with pedestals exquisitely carved. It is during this period (the Decorated), that we may first notice the habitual practice of placing the comer buttresses at an angle of 45 with the walls. This position however has been…
Architecture, Gothic
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