A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 216
res here seen are the porch, of which details are shown in Pis. LXXX and CXXVII. Oneither side is a rich Perpendicular chapel. The windows have Geometric tracery. The gabled buttressescovered with niches for statues, the flying buttresses which convey the thrust of the vault to the buttresses,and… … Plate No. CL\ HECKINGTON CHURCH,AND GROTESQUES. LINCOLNSHIRE.c. 1330. D GARGOYLES Water-spouts afforded an opportunity for grotesque sculptures to the medijeval masons. Hideous mon-sters with wide-open mouths served to reheve the monotony of wall-spaces, and, by contrast, to enhancethe effect of…
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