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

Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 175

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e western origin of pointed arches. Above these arches is a corbel-tablewith grotesque masks. Several other Norman features should be noticed: the zigzag string courses;the cable-mould at the edge of the gable with its head terminal; the double-billet on the outside rim ofthe great arch. This is… … Plate No. CX. SOMPTING HEREFORD A Triple strands and trefoils from Sompting Church, Sussex. These are probably of Saxon date. Itwill be observed that the trefoils are of two kinds (i) with a solid midrib, and (ii) with a hollow in placeof a midrib. These are the embryo trefoils from which the Early…

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