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Gothic architecture in England and France (1911)

West, George Herbert · London, G. Bell · leaf 325

An illustration from Gothic architecture in England and France, 1911, leaf 325
ould probably have continued to work outthe flowing lines and rich canopies of her later Decoratedon somewhat the same lines as were adopted later by theFrench. The stout Norman columns of Gloucester choirand triforium were pared down to a flat surface, and awonderful screen work of rectilinear… … WINCHESTER NAVE 288 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE with painted glass, and above all rises the maze of the liernevaulting-, which is really a wagon vault covered with adouble system of ribs (p. 145). Such was the boldness ofthese builders that they dispensed altogether with flyingbuttresses. Gloucester set…

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