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 218
5). Sometimes the panels weremade with semicircular heads, which rested upon pilastersfurnished with imposts and bases, all the margin being highlyornamented, while the panels themselves were plain, as in theCourt pew at Chelvey, in Somerset (Fig. 177.). There are manyinstances of the use of these… … Fig. 177.—Part of the Court Pew, Chelvey Church,Somerset. rich. At Chelvey the frieze is carved with a continuouspattern, as it was in very many instances, but sometimesit was decorated in a more mechanical way with ovals andoblongs, as at Benthall Hall (Fig. 176), and occasionally it waspierced in…
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