A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 183
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 type of what has been called French Corinthian—a mixture of naturalisticfoliage and classical volutes—is the last… … Plate No. CXIX. CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL. DETACHED SHAFTS AND CAPITALS OF RETROCHOIR. ,: 1190. N t The character of this work is again a mixture of French and English. Instead of attached shafts thereare here clusters of entirely detached shafts separated by spaces of some inches from the central or…
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