Early renaissance architecture in England : a historical and descriptive account of the Tudor, Elizabethan, and Jacobean periods, 1500-1625 : for the use of students and others (1914)
Gotch, J. Alfred (John Alfred), 1852-1942 · London : B.T. Batsford New York : Scribner's · leaf 163
FIG. u<> Stone Finials and Kneelers. line of the ridge produced a point that showed against the sky,and helped towards the general picturesqueness of effect. In->omc of the more important houses the finials were worked … FIG. 127. — Manor House, Finstock, Oxfordshire. with greater elaboration, and were placed not only on the apexof the gable but on the kneelers at its foot (see Fig. 132, andthe dormer on Fig. 137; also Fig. no). The effect of plain GAB! ES gables contrastedin Figs. 125 andimportant finials may…
Architecture, Renaissance · Architecture -- England
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