Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 248
ssible, so as to form an armour of defenceagainst predatory robbers, such as the barbarous Norsepirates who were continually invading the British shores. A favourite form of the hinge was the crescent shape ;sometimes the hinge branched out in a simple crescentwith curved and bifurcated endings… … Fig- 199.—Hinges, &c., to Haddiscoe Church. across the door to strengthen it, and elaborate foliatedcrosses often occupied the central part, as in Fig. 199. 230 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. On some of the old Norman doors, in addition to thehinges, as at Stillingfleet Church, there are designs iniron…
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