An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England : from the Conquest to the Reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders (1862)
Rickman, Thomas, 1776-1841, Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884, Le Keux, John Henry, 1812-1896, Cattermole, George, 1800-1868, Mackenzie, Frederick, 1787 or 8-1854, Jewitt, Thomas Orlando Sheldon, 1799-1869, Starling, William Francis, Hacker, C., 19th cent, Carter, James, 1798-1855, Wilkinson, W. S, Smith, C. B · Oxford ; London : John Henry and James Parker · leaf 314
To the open-work bands of the last style succeeds an orna-ment equally beautiful, and not so fragile; this is the floweredmoulding, [as at Kislingbury] ; there are often three or four inone doorway, and to the toothed-ornament succeeds a flower of DECORATED ENGLISH DOORWAYS. 263 four leaves, in a… … North Mimms, Herltordshirs, c. 1300, great profusion to good effect. Over these doorways there areseveral sorts of canopies; the dripstone is generally supportedby a corbel, which is commonly a head ; in some instances aplain return is used, but that return seldom runs horizontall3^The canopy is…
