A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 174
n columns or pillars, withcushion capitals. The cushion is a cube of which the four lower corners have been bevelled off thusreducing the square to a circle, and leaving the sides semi-circles. The bases spread out to touch thesides of square plinths. This illustration shows as plainly as in a… … Plate No. CIX. BURY ST EDMUNDS. TOWER GATEWAY. no. N This illustration shows shafted wall arcades. The capitals are plain cushions, like those of Worcestercrypt (PI. CVIII), in spite of the richness of the work. The arcade above them shows intersectingarches which some consider the western origin…
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