A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1879)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 232
imes orna-mented with the character-istic ornament, the Ball-flower, as in Gloucester Ca-thedral. In ordinary Perpendicu-lar vaulting, ribs are ap-plied much in the sameway as in the precedingstyle, but they are some-times employed in greaterprofusion and in more com-plicated arrangements, bywhich… … Thornton Abbey, Lincolnshire, c 1420. 224 of each pendentive, and generally become multiplied asthey rise upwards, so that the whole surface is coveredwith tracery, which is usually enriched withfeatherings and otherdecorations. Many churches, andsome other ancientbuild-ings, have raised ceil-ings,…
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