A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1845)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford : J. H. Parker · leaf 154
triangle, as at Barnackand Brigstock churches, Northampton-shire. In the Norman style doorwaysbecame more ornamental, though at its j /c^fcommencement very little decorationwas used. In the earliest examplesthe jambs and archivolt were merelycut into square recesses, or angles with-out mouldings,… … Bniworth, Northampton»hir x In large churches the principal door- smaller buildings there is frequently noways are placed at the west end of the western doorway, the entrances beingnave and the ends of the transepts, but in at the sides of the nave. 140 DOORWAY. or quite equalled the breadth of the…
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