History of architecture, from the earliest times; its present condition in Europe and the United States; with a biography of eminent architects, and a glossary of architectural terms (1848)
Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879 · Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston · leaf 173
h of Cliff, near Dover,is undoubtedly Saxon. The triangular pediment isornamented with the double-billet moulding. Thekeystone of the outer arch is a rude representation ofthe Deity in the act of benediction, and on each sideis an angel. The head moulding and the crossed-circle moulding adorn this… … 140 THE ROMANESQUE NORMAN ARCHITECTURE. When the Normans conquered England, in 1066,they were far more cultivated than the Saxons. Manyfine cathedrals had before that period been erected inNormandy. The Norman monks, it is said, were sopartial to Architecture, that they studied both thetheory and…
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