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 /by the late Thomas Rickman (1881)

Rickman, Thomas, 1776-1841, Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884, Le Keux, John Henry, 1812-1896, Cattermole, George, 1800-1868, Mackenzie, Frederick, 1787 or 8-1854, Jewitt, Thomas Orlando Sheldon, 1799-1869, Starling, William Francis, Hacker, C., 19th cent, Carter, James, 1798-1855, Wilkinson, W. S, Smith, C. B · London : Parker and Co. · leaf 109

An illustration from 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 /by the late Thomas Rickman, 1881, leaf 109 — refectory are also still stand- ing, and although the ornamentation was entirely altered and windows inserted by Abbot Litlington in the fourteenth century, the original ornamental arcade in the refectory has been preserved b. It is remarkable that the stone used in the Confessor's work at "West-… … Arcade of the Refectory, Westminster Abbey, a.d. 1066. when the wall of the refectory was altered and decorated afresh, is quite of a different character, and has perished so much that it crumbles with a touch. b This arcade had been built up with opened under the direction of G. G. rough stone for…

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