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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 /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 237

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Abbey, as well as most of the windows at Exeter. [In Kent a peculiar description of tracery is used, the trefoils and quatrefoils being doubly foliated, and the cusps often ter- minated by knobs forming a sort of crocket. This peculiarity, called Kentish tracery, will be better understood from the… … figures being formed Little AddinSton' Northamptonshire, c. 1320. in mouldings which spring from the sides of the principal. The architraves of windows of this style are much ornamented with mouldings, which are sometimes made into shafts. The dripstones and canopies of windows are the same as in…

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