A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 238
, 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. The arches are supported on… … Plate No. CLXXVli. LOWICK CHURCH, NORTHANTS. BENCH ENDS, COMMONLYCALLED POPPY-HEADS, isth Century. P The name poppy-head is of doubtful origin. It may be derived from puppis, the poop of a ship. Thewood-carvers of the 15th and i6th centuries often carved bench-heads very elaborately with heads…
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