An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England : from the Conquest to the Reformation ; with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders /by the late Thomas Rickman (1881)
Rickman, Thomas, 1776-1841, Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884, Le Keux, John Henry, 1812-1896, Cattermole, George, 1800-1868, Mackenzie, Frederick, 1787 or 8-1854, Jewitt, Thomas Orlando Sheldon, 1799-1869, Starling, William Francis, Hacker, C., 19th cent, Carter, James, 1798-1855, Wilkinson, W. S, Smith, C. B · London : Parker and Co. · leaf 168
t many figures. In general the capitals andbases will carry in their character sufficient marks to deter-mine their date, except in the transition from Early Englishto Decorated. Early English Buttresses.These are of four descriptions :— 1st. A flat buttress is often used, but it is not always… … Ensham, Oxon, c. 1220. Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire, c. 1220. 2nd. A buttress not so broad as the flat one, but nearly ofthe same projection as breadth, and carried up, sometimeswith only one set-off, and sometimes without any, and thesehave often their edges chamfered from the window tablet. k2 132 THE…