A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 530
e of aprosperous country were lavished on the churchesand monasteries. From the thirteenth to the sixteenth centu-ries all the pha.scs of Continental Gothic hadtheir counterpart in England. There was theearly style marked by the general adiqition ofthe pointed arch, window openings still smalland… … ENGLAND this sociilled early English work came the de-velopment of buttresses, the decrease of wallsurfaces and increase of window opeuings, thesubdivision of the window, and the develop-ment of tracery, and far more profuse use ofoniaraent. This periodhiis been generally re-fen-ed to as that ofthe…
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