A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1902)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886, Spiers, Richard Phené, 1838-1916, Kerr, Robert, 1823-1904 · London, J. Murray · leaf 517
dea of the style of detail adopted in thesechurches. For brick architecture it is singularly appropriate. Itadmits of more or less light, as may be required. It is crowned by acornice of pleasing profile, and the whole is simpler and better than themany-buttressed and pinnacled apses of the Gothic… … i£v.;/</ v.-- Chapel at Humanejos. (From Villa Amil.) some 13th-century tracery in its windows, thus revealing its date aswell as betraying its origin, and but for which it might almost bomistaken for an example of pure Saracenic architecture. This is even more the case in a beautiful chapel in…
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