Early renaissance architecture in England; a historical & descriptive account of the Tudor, Elizabethan & Jacobean periods, 1500-1625, for the use of students and others (1901)
Gotch, J. Alfred (John Alfred), 1852-1942 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 332
are several ceilings of this kind still left. The ribs are arranged insimple geometrical patterns with straight lines. In the watch-ing chamber, at the end of the Great Hall, these ribs are of afair size, both in width and depth, and at certain intersectionsthey are bent downwards to form a pendant… … 159.—Bosses from Ceilings at Hampton Court. royal badges, or even the royal arms. These bosses are notcarved, but modelled in papier nidchc, or some similar sub-stance, and they, together with the wood ribs, are secured tothe joists above. Two of these bosses are illustrated inFig. 159, and it is…
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