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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 35

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, finishing with angle scrolls, but turning the reverse way,from the Cloisters of Canterbury Cathedral. It is executed in Purbeck Marble, and hasbeen polished; probably one of the earliest instances of polished carving in marble, in thiscountry. Another form of simple foliage, which was frequently… … Fig. 28. Leonards Priory, Stamford. This form of Capital appears to be a variation upon that fromCanterbury (Fig. 28) ; but it was much used during the transitional period, and evenoccasionally in the Early English—as seen in the arcade of the inside portion of the WestFront of Peterborough…

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