Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 41
eed only noticethose more important monuments which have a definite artistic char-acter of their own. It used to be asserted that Saxon stone architecture took much ofits inspiration from a previous timber architecture which it super-seded. A careful examination of the facts throws more than… … FIG. 23.—BARTON-ON-HUMBER CHURCH. ANGLO-SAXON ART iJfei ^m i ^^^-- ^1 cJffiw m ^S w FIG. 24.—TOWER OF EARLSBARTON CHURCH, NORTH-AMPTONSHIRE. ignored that stone had been used for many centuries in these islands before the Saxon inroads, and had left its own traditions and examples. In a country…
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