A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 230
e most pleasing example of several of a similar character in the same neigh-bourhood. The base resembles a Norman scalloped capital upside down. Round the top of the bowl isa row of sculpture of beaded straps bound together like metal work and terminating in half-opened leavesin profile of a kind… … Plate No. CLXIX. SPRINGFIELD CHURCH, CHELMSFORD. FONT. r. 1220. EE The foliage on this font shows further varieties in the treatment ot stiff-leaf. In the side to the left thestalks are curved into circles and the trefoils show very distinctly the solid midribs of the Lincoln type(see PI. CXXI).…
Architecture · Architecture, Gothic · Cathedrals · Church architecture
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