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

Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 237

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, and arched with intersecting mouldings. Thesemouldings, in which stone is made to apparently penetrate stone, are unusual at this early date, butcommon in the late Perpendicular period. As a principle the method is unsound, but exceptions maysometimes be pleasing. It is, after all, only a further… … Plate No. CLXX\I. NAXENBY CHURCH, I-INCOLNSHIRE. SEDILIA AND PISCINA. <•. 1310. D This is very typical Decorated work. The canopies are ogee-headed, moulded and cusped internally andcroclceted externally, terminating in a foliated finial. Between the canopies are crocketed pinnacles withfinials.…

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