A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 182
ry Cathedral. But at St Peters, Northampton, we find very elaborately carved cushion capitals,apparently as part of the original design. The sculpture is of somewhat the same type as that on thecapitals of Hereford Cathedral (see PL CXI), and suggests an origin in the illuminated borders of… … Plate No. CXVIII. CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. CAPITALS LN TRLMTY CHAPEL. f. 1180. N t Although, at Canterbury, William the Englishman, when he succeeded William of Sens as master-mason, made several deviations from his predecessors plan, he continued to employ the French masonsto carve the capitals. This…
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