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Gothic architecture in England and France (1911)

West, George Herbert · London, G. Bell · leaf 278

An illustration from Gothic architecture in England and France, 1911, leaf 278
. I^ever, even in the latest Perpendicular, didEnglish piers become mere bundles of mouldings, but re-tained the up-bearing character of the column to the end.And this character, though derived from the nooked piersof the Norman, was first markedly given at Lincoln, wherealso we first find, as the… … the moLildings, the spotted crosses of the dog-tooth, theemphasis of the undercut rounded capital, with the deepshadows cast by the outward curve of its sculpture, which i-:.\RL\- i;n\;i.isii J41 throw up into brii^ht light the trefoiled beauty of the crock-eted ansfle. For on entering^ an Early…

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