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 343
rstwere of a section simi-lar to that of theirpredecessors in wood,soon assumed otherproportions : they in-creased in width andlessened in depth ;they sometimes ceasedto have any mouldings,and became more likeribbons or straps, asin the example fromBeckington Abbey(Fig. 162), but more often they… … 163.—Coved Ceiling, Beckington AbbeySomerset. i78 STRAP-WORK ORNAMENT. did not form such regular set patterns as the others: theyenclosed a panel here and there, but wandered off into spiralsand scrolls, and were emphasized at intervals by little orna-mental knobs, such as may be seen in the…
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