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Art in Great Britain and Ireland (1913)

Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 79

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FIG, pg,—WALTHAM CROSS :RESTORATION. the mistaken treatment of ^ The Chapter House of Westminster was the Parliament House of the kingdom from shortlyafter its erection until the Reformation, when the Commons migrated to St. Stephens Chapel.The Chapter House then became the storeroom of the… … FIG. lOO.—CHAPTER HOUSE, Y<JRKMINSTER. the one un-windowed bay. Had the device of opening this bayand filling the tracery, which is identical with that of the windows, with shadow instead of with solidwall, been adopted, all these polyg-onal chapter houses would havebeen greatly improved. It…

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