A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 368
Garth or CloisterGarth ; it is sometimes used as a garden, some-times merely as agrass space ; andsometimes a foun-tain for ornament,or the supply ofwater is locatedwithin it. Cloisters of theGothic age arestill numerous inEuro])e, and areoften very beau-tiiiil ; the oppor-tunity attbrded bythe… … CLOISTERED ARCH Some few instances of still earlier treatmentexist, as in the famous Eomanesque cloister ofS. Tropliime at Aries. After the Gothic epochfewer cloisters were built, apparently becauseof the number already existing, but some inter-esting iieoclassic examples are to be found inItaly,…
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