Prior, Edward S. (Edward Schröder), 1852-1932 · London : G. Bell and Sons · leaf 292
a crown of seven cross-sprayedcrockets that support a big semicircularabacus. At Furness* there are someelegant wall corbels, with the same cross-sprayed crockets, set to two tiers of bellcapitals ; and in the chapter house thetiers merge into one long bracketed con-tour. At York (fig. 207 on next… … cradling of our Gothic. With their 206. RIVAULX. CORBEL INTRANSEPT. ranges of springing crockets, they lift asheaf of broadly textured sculpture, with a note of noble fluency in con-trast with the uprightness of the shafts that they carry. Just as in the decoration of the capital, so here we can…
Architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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