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A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)

Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 134

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Plate No. LXIX. COLCHESTER, TRINITY CHURCH DOORWAY, ioth Ce.ntlry(?). S This doorway is built entirely of Roman tiles, and is triangular headed. Other features in the sametower are Saxon in character. The projecting layers of tiles at the top of the jambs are copied fromRoman precedents, and should… … Plate No. LXX. DINTON CHURCH, BUCKS. ITMPANUM. c. 1125. N On the lintel is a rude sculpture of St Michael opposing Satan, in the form of a huge dragon, with a cross.Above in the tympanum is a much better executed relief of two wyverns biting fruit from a tree.Underneath is the inscription:—…

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