A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 197
ated foliage. The way in which the sculpture keeps within a con\ex rounded profile makes itharmonise with the mouldings, giving a solid appearance as compared with the concave hollows of EarlyEnglish work. The non-architectural character of the naturalistic foliage, as at Southwell ChapterHouse… … Plate No. CXXXV. ELY CATHEDRAL. LADY CHAPEL SCULPTURE, c 1340. D Unfortunately the elaborate sculpture of the Lady Chapel at Ely is terribly mutilated, hardly a headbeing left on any of the hundreds of human figures in the reliefs of the spandrils. But the mouldingsand the foliage sculpture are…
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