Prior, Edward S. (Edward Schröder), 1852-1932 · London : G. Bell and Sons · leaf 252
ibs notched and zigzagged to fit the shapes that mere wan-tonness seems to have devised to beas irregular as possible. The English qualities of vaultingare seen to advantage, too, in the greatgroined porches of the thirteenth cen-tur)-. The peculiarly native develop-ment of the porch has been… … of English resurrection after the subjection of the Conquest. The Norman porches had at first been wide and shallow, as the continental Romanesque tradition had made them. But they had already become deep and richly ornamented at Southwell, ^n- i^eleigh, chapter house. Sherborne, and INIalmesbury.-…
Architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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