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A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)

Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 228

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Plate No. CLXVI. STONE CHURCH, BUCKS. FONT N Norman fonts, like Norman doorways, are frequently preserved in churches that have little else ofNorman work left in them. The font at Stone, Bucks., is a remarkably crude and barbarous production,like many of the Norman tympana. The strap-ornament is… … Plate No. CLXVII. HEREFORD CATHEDRAL. FONT. N The font at Hereford Cathedral has figures of the twelve apostles seated in niches of beaded arches withornamented columns. A key pattern decorates the rim. The figures are much worn. The draperiesare not unlike those on the west front of Lincoln…

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