A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 177
Plate No. CXU. DUNSTABLE PRIORV CHURCH, BEDS. NAVE BASE. r. 1135. N These bases show a considerable advance on those of Worcester crypt. They consist of three distinctmembers—-(i) a round moulding to correspond with the necking, (ii) a concave moulding, and (iii) a largeflattened round moulding… … Plate No. CXIII. CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. WILLIAM OF SENS BASE. 1177. Nt This is an unusually elaborate base. Although dated 1177, and therefore in the period of the NormanTransition, it is fully developed Early English in style. The base proper (the upper third) consists, asat Dunstable, of three…
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