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 176
ured their conquests inEngland by building an immense number of fortressesand castles, and signalized their zeal in religion, bythe number and splendour of their ecclesiastical edi-fices. Their style, although similar to that of theSaxons, demonstrating its Roman origin, shows pro-gressive… … -4 \\^^>^^ PETE^BOROUGH CATHEDRAL IN ENGLAND. 141 elaborate, and often all different in the same building;the sculptures numerous, and exceedingly grotesque.The doorways and windows were deep, on account ofthe excessive thickness of the walls, and were alwayssurmounted with a semicircular…
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