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Examples of English mediaeval foliage and coloured decoration, taken from buildings of the twelfth to the fifteenth century: with descriptive letterpress (1874)

Colling, James Kellaway · London, The author [etc.] · leaf 33

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f of the Early English period (Plates i and 3). The foliageconsists, too, of foliated buds arranged in a triple manner ; as in the example in the centreof the Capital, No. 2, Plate 4, from Patrixbourne Church, Kent. Other examples will befound at Nos. 2 and 3, Plate 3, from Ely, and No. 1, Plate 9,… … Fig. 23, from the South doorway to the Cloisters, Peterborough Cathedral. NormanFoliage is frequently taken from expanding fern fronds when in their budding spiral form,as in the Capital from St. Peters Church, Northampton (No. 1, Plate 6), which containsa very beautiful conventional arrangement of…

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