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A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1879)

Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 183

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at the chapelin the White Tower of London. The Norman arch wasround, either semicircular or horse-shoe, and sometimesthe impost moulding or capital was considerably below thelevel of the springing, and the mouldings of the arch wereprolonged vertically down to it; this arrangement wascommon in the… … firman &rrf)ttecture, 17 5 tion into Early English, that the pointed arch was com-monly introduced, but some buildings erected at thisperiod retained the Norman characteristics in considerablepurity. The best example in the kingdom of an earlyecclesiastical structure in this style is the chapel…

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