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 280
d, but thatmust be allowed to be nearly, if not quite, the finest west frontin the kingdom ; it is that of York : its towers and buttresseshave already been spoken of, and it only remains to say, thatthe three doorways are the finest specimens of Decorated door-ways in the kingdom; its great window… … THE WKST FKONT DECORATED ENGLISH FRONTS. 221 gable of the roof rises with a front of fine tracery and a piercedbattlement. It is to be regretted that this beautiful front issurrounded by buildings so near that no good view can beobtained of it, as, from the eye being brought too near, thefine…
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