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Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)

Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 363

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work excuted in England prior to theNorman Conquest (1066). The work we understand as Norman in England was inexistence long before the Conquerors time, and it is quitelikely that the subsequent English Gothic would havedeveloped just the same if the Normans had not invadedEngland. The English… … Fig:. 384.—Door ofSt. Gabriels, South ofFrance. ROMA NESQ UE A R CHIT EC TURE A ND ORNA MENT. 3+3 vaulting still remain, but the rest of the original churchhas disappeared. On the Continent and in England, justafter the year 1000, a great building period set in, as formany years prior to this date…

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