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An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders (1881)

Rickman, Thomas, 1776-1841 · Oxford : J. H. Parker · leaf 163

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North Transept, Westminster Abbey, a.d. 1250. Aisles, York Cathedral, a.d. 1227. 124 THE EARLY ENGLISH STYLE. The arches of the gallery [the triforium, or blind-storey,]in this style are often with trefoiled heads, and the mould- … Triforium Arcade, Beverley Minster, c. 1230. ings running round the trefoil, even to the dripstone. Chesterchoir is a fine specimen ; and there are some plain archesof this description in Winchester Cathedral which are verybeautiful. Early English Piers. Of the piers of large buildings of this…

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