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 206
n is the most perfect (see Plate),but that at Waltham is, on the whole, the most beautiful inits details. If the transition from Norman to Early English was gradual,much more so was that from Early English to Decorated; andwe have several curious examples of this transition on a large ^ [They are… … B VLi;— L. ~t«viAr ^ O Je GENERAL APPEARANCE. 155 scale. Westminster Abbey, tbougb carried on for a long time^,appears to have been carefully continued on the original de-sign ; and except a very few parts, some of which are quitemodern, may be considered good Early English throughout;but in the…
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