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 359
in their roofs very complicatedtracerj\ 280 THE PERPENDICULAR ENGLISH STYLE. We now come to a new and most delicate description ofroof, that of fan tracery, of which probably the earliest, andcertainly one of the most elegant, is that of the cloisters atGloucester. In these roofs, from the top of… … Christ Church Hall, Oxford, a.d. 1528. the ribs of the fan running through it, and dividing it intoportions, which are filled with ornament. Kings CollegeChapel, Cambridge, Henry the Sevenths Chapel, and theAbbey Church at Bath, are the best specimens, after theGloucester cloisters; and to these…
