The cathedrals of England and Wales. First-[third] series (1905)
Bumpus, Thomas Francis · New York, J. Pott · leaf 48
style at length,seeing her Romanesque traditions failing her, stepsout boldly on her own account and beats theFrench almost out of the field with her ownweapons ; surpassing her in mouldings, and in thedelicacy and grace of the foliaging of her capitals. I alluded just now to the gradual… … CANTERBURY 29 The same economical considerations affected therebuilders of other choirs of our cathedrals, as,for instance, Winchester and Gloucester, where theexistence of a semi-circular crypt compelled the laterarchitect, who could not afford to destroy the wholeof the foundations, to adopt some…
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