A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 34
, CXXXL) CROSS, the symbol of Christianity. Constantly used as an ornament, and its formadopted for the ground plan of churches. The commonest uses of the cross as anornament, are as a finial to a gable or spire, as a rood, or as a consecration cross. Thecross has always been a favourite form for a… … Fig. 31. Diaper-work and Ogeed Canopies Latin, the distinction between them being that, while in the Greek the limbs are all ofequal length, in the Latin one limb is elongated. Consecration crosses, that is, stonecrosses cut on the spots where the wall was marked with a cross in holy water at…
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