London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 230
building in Eng- 109. shows Fig. shire, erected in 1136, by Henry Stephen, is generally admitted to be the first land in which the pointed arch was displayed. part of an intersecting semicircular arcade, forming the triforium or gallery over the chancel of this church. Arcades of this description… … instance of an aperture of this shape being pierced through thewall as a window, and forming a self-supported arch. But how-ever this may be, very soon after this date the pointed archcame into general use, though not immediately, to the exclusionof the esmicircular one; for, during the remainder…
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