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 361
their roofs very complicatedtracerv. 280 THE PKRPENDICULAR ENGLISH STYLE. We now come to a new and most delicate description ofroof, til at of /an tracer?/, of which probably the earliest, andcertainly one of the most elegant, is that of the cloisters atGloucester. In these roofs, from the top of… … Christ Cliurcli Hall, Oxford, a.d. 1528. the ribs of the fan running through it, and dividing It Intoportions, wkich are filled with ornament. Kings CollegeChapel, Cambridge, Henry the Sevenths Chapel, and theAbbey Church at Bath, are the best specimens, after theGloucester cloisters; and to these…
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