A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 115
Plate No. L. PERSHORE ABBEY, WORC. INTERIOR OF CHOIR, c. 1245. EE This church has no rriforium. The capitals are sculptured with stiff-leaf foliage. The east bays on bothsides converge, thus forming a modified apse. The grouping of the shafts and mouldings suggests thecoming Decorated development… … Plate No. LI. FOUNTAINS ABBEY, YORKS. CHAPEL OF THE NINE ALTARS, c. 1240. EE This is a Cistercian building, and therefore without elaborate ornament or sculpture, but singularlybeautiful in its chaste simplicit}-. This kind of architecture relies for its charm entirely on good masonryand beauty of…
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