Prior, Edward S. (Edward Schröder), 1852-1932 · London : G. Bell and Sons · leaf 414
teenth-century oak screens that hiive come down to us, showinghow for a long period the carpenters craft, where timber was inplenty but freestone often difficult to get, exercised itself in copying thestone constructions of the oolite country. In the twelfth century, asCompton in Surrey shows, and… … losing sight of the masonicideals of its origin, and tracerywas developing as mere pat-terning, it was found how easilyand appropriately the oak boardcould be adapted for such orna-mental designing, as in the solidoak screenworks of Guilden-Morden, Waltham Abbey, andOttery St. Mary. The…
Architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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