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, ltd.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 142
re is a small doorway of this kind at Aylesford Hall, inKent (Fig. 93), which shows a curious mixture, for the headhas a fairly high-pointed Gothic arch, while the label is ofclassic profile, and is ornamented with dentils: the spandrilsare filled with shields of late design, one of which bears… … varied its features atwill. The head waseither high-pointed,flat-pointed, or ellip-tical, as their fancydictated; and thelabel was eithermoulded after thefashion of theiryouth, or in ac-cordance with thenewer forms whichthey saw in usearound them. It isin such unimport-ant matters as these,where no…
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