Prior, Edward S. (Edward Schröder), 1852-1932 · London : G. Bell and Sons · leaf 145
ct itdistinctly with door-heads, andshow a pedigree as follows. Cir-cular openings, grouped in theform of a cross, were an easy andnatural decoration of a slab-filling87. livi.ANii, WEST FRONT, 1190. to a coustructlvc opening. By widening such circles until they met, a useful opening was… … In porch entrances, however, the use ofthe pointed arch is constructional (to assistthe slight abutments),and is continuallyto befound, when the inner door-head is circular,as at the Temple Church, London ; ^Vood-ford, Northants, and St. Marys, Devizes. Ruskin, Stones of \enice,vol. i., p.129 ;…
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