A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 29
es of thisperiod at angles are frequently placed diagonally.(XI, XII, XIIl.) P Buttresses are sometimes tall and narrow, andterminated in tall and thin pinnacles. They areoften scarcely distinguishable from D buttresses, butif ornamented, the ornament belongs to the style.Sunk panels are the most… … Buttress LlMCOUSFig. 23 H GLOSSARY CAPITAL, the head of a pillar. (See Pier.) Capitals are either moulded or sculptured. The simplest form of N capital is the Cushion in which it is merely a cube of stonewith the four lower corners chamfered off, thus each face becomes a semi-circleof which the…
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