A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1874)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 245
canopies of tombs and such likepurposes, the circular arch is almost as common as the pointed. Other-examples are found at Iona, though there the buildings are nearly asexceptional and continental in design as Roslyn itself — the circularpier-arch is used with the mouldings of the 13th century, and… … (Ml. Aisle in Trinity Church, Edinburgn. in a manner very unusual, and a mode of construction is adoptedwhich does not perhaps exist anywhere else in Britain. The wholegroup, in fact, is as exceptional as its situation, and as remote fromthe usual modes of architecture on the mainland. The early…
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