A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 142
whichis apparently an insertion perhaps 20 or 30 years later than the rest of the doorway, contains a dignifiedfigure of Christ in a vesica supported by angels, and the signs of the evangelists—the angel, lion, ox andeagle—fill the remaining spaces. On the lintel are the seated figures of the… … Plate No. LXX\II a. CHARTRES CATHEDRAL. CENTR.AL WEST DOORWAY. This French illustration Is inserted to throw more light on the weather-worn sculptures of the Rochesterdoorway. Here the figure of Our Lord in a vesica and the signs of the evangelists, also the apostles onthe lintel, are clearer. The…
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