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 66
on. Foliage was less used in this style than in either of the previous ones.Capitals of piers were very much reduced in size, and were formed without any otherornamentation than a few simple octagonal mouldings. Arches, string courses, andcornices were seldom enriched by foliage, but if they were,… … Fig. 57. hollow of the bell. Conventional crockets (Fig. 57, from St. Marys Church, BurySt. Edmunds) and finials were common to ogee canopies, which became much elongated,and the crockets placed further apart. For the enrichment of wall surface, tracerypanelling was almost invariably used, and…
Decoration and ornament · Church decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Decoration and ornament, Architectural · Mural painting and decoration
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