A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 140
LXX\. MALMESBURY ABBEY, WILTS, c. 1160. N This remarkable porch has no tympanum on the outer doorway, but contains one on the inner doorway,and a semi-circular panel of groups of the apostles and angels on either side (see PI. CXXXVIII). Theorders of the outer doorway are rounded and ornamented… … Plate No. LXXVI. BARFRESTON CHURCH, KENT. c. 1170. N This tympanum is one of the best in the country. In the centre is the figure of Christ seated in avesica supported by angels and surrounded by interlacing foliage, the whorls of which contain variousdevices, including the heads of a king and a…
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