A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 107
Plate No. XLII. FOUNTAINS ABBEY, YORKS. TRANSEPTAL CHAPELS. ,. 1150. Nt Fountains Abbey is the principal early Cistercian building in the country. These transeptal chapels arepure Burgundian Cistercian style, with pointed barrel-vaults, and abacus strings without shafts or capitals. INTERIORS:… … Plate No. XLl 11. FOUNTAINS ABBEY, YORKS. NA\E ARCADE, c: 1150. Nt The Cistercians were cosmopolitan ascetic puritans. They allowed no superfluous ornament, but approvedplain sound construction. Consequently their buildings are models of pure Gothic of a severe type. Thenave of Fountains is a good…
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