Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · London : Parker and Co. · leaf 110
g in the capitals and bases, or perhaps in the hood-molds, though these also are sometimes wanting. Very acute arches are generally the earliest, butthis cannot be relied upon as a rule; an Early Eng-lish arch is sometimes very flat, being made within anexisting Norman one, which was semicircular,… … Wall Arcade in Chapel of Choir, Westminster Abbey, A.D. 1260, 100 THE EARLY ENGLISH STYLE. The Pillars are of various forms—round or octa-gonal in small and plain churches, and these not un-frequently alternate; in richer work they are usuallyclustered; but the pillar most characteristic of…
Architecture, Gothic
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