A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 98
Plate No. XXXIII. ST BENETS CHURCH, CAMBRIDGE. TOWER ARCH. ,. 1050 Features to be noticed:—the strange beasts sculptured above the abacus on either side; the absence ofany recessing of the arch and of mouldings; the continuance of the pilaster strips on the imposts roundthe arch as a hood-mould;… … Plate No. XXXIV. ST ALBANS CATHEDRAL. NORTH ARCADE OF NAVE. c. 1090. N This portion of St Albans Cathedral represents the severest type of Norman architecture as introducedinto England at the Conquest. There are no mouldings or pillars. The round arches are recessed intothree shallow orders with a…
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