A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 191
nstead ofprojecting as in most French examples. They thus give the proper effect of architectural sculpture asbeing part of the building and not stuck on. But a still more beautiful effect is produced by the virginsof the outer band being made to look out from bowers of exquisite foliage. Between… … Plate No. CXXVIII. LINCOLN CATHEDRAL. NORTH CHOIR AISLE DOORWAY. c. 1270. EE This doorway contains some of tiie richest late Early English foliage. The typical dog-tooth ornamentand conventional roses form the minor decorations. The capitals, bosses, and principal arch-mouldingare covered with very…
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