Architecture : an introduction to the history and theory of the art of building (1912)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · New York : H. Holt and company · leaf 193
e trefoil isfound on the side doorof Ely Cathedral, and over some sculpturedpanels of the twelfth century at Lincoln,Fig. 41 is a doorway from the east of France.A remarkable example is the early Gothicwest door of Byland Abbey. The questionarises whether the trefoil arch is a variety ofthe Arab… … SAXON AND NORMAN SCHOOLS 191 foiled arch and the foiled circle are Easternfeatures. A remarkable example of the tre-foil-arch is found in the thirteenth-centuryporches of Bourges Cathedral ; here thebottom lobes are complete, as in Moorisharches. Still farther north, at Tournay, Ihave seen two…
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