Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 320
tues,both for niches andtombs. Purbeck developed a style of itsown, so that for a century and a half, from1 175 to 1325, the marbler, with his attend-ant polisher, was the chief nurse of our nativeGothic sculpture. Westminster Abbey andthe Temple Church are rich in the workof the Purbeck marblers,… … FIG. 535.—TOMB AT HOLME-PIERREPOINT, NOTTS. (Alabaster.) figure, and York that ofArchbishop Gray (Fig.526). Early in the fourteenthcentury the P u r b e c kfashion died out, and wassucceeded by figures instone, bronze, alabaster,or wood. The marblersseem to have broughtabout their own super-cession…
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