Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford [etc.] Parker and Co. · leaf 172
re commonlybelongs to the Decorated style. The colouring of theornaments to make them more effective was far morecommon in mediaeval Gothic work than is generallysupposed, because it has been so universally white-washed over, either by the Puritans, or during the badtaste of the Georgian era. This… … 162 THE DECORATED STYLE. The Buttresses in this style have great variety offorms and of degrees of richness. Sometimes they arequite plain, or merely have the angles chamfered off,and terminated by a slope, ei-ther under the cornice, as atIrthlingborough, or independ-ent of it, as at Stanton…
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