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Gothic architecture in England and France (1911)

West, George Herbert · London, G. Bell · leaf 257

An illustration from Gothic architecture in England and France, 1911, leaf 257
ue Gothic vault with ribs of astonishinglylight section for their date. Above the nave arches comesthe round-arched triforium, and the whole is richly orna-mented with Norman detail. Wimborne is almost similar,but, on the other hand, at Oxford (p. 87) the arches are allround, though the beautiful… … 220 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE example of extraordinary lightness in detail for a purelyround-arched building. At Oxford and at Romsey are found the first examplesof the arrangement which appears later in Glastonbury, ofcarryings the design of the pier arch above the triforium,with a half capital on the…

Church architecture · Architecture, Gothic

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