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

Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 157

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Plate No. XCI. ST NICHOLAS, KINGS LYNN, NORFOLK. WINDOW OF TOWER. c. 1230. EE This is a very beautiful composition. A lofty recessed and shafted archway reduces the thickness of thetower wall, and in the recessed space are inserted a pair of shafted lancets with a tympanum over thempierced with a… … \ Plate No. XCII. SALISBURY CATHEDRAL. WLNDOWS. 1240. EE This illustration shows lancets grouped in pairs and triplets, shafted and moulded, in the upper storeysof the transept front under containing arches, the tympana being pierced with quatrefoils, thus becomingplate-tracery. The high roofs,…

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