A history of the Gothic revival : an attempt to show how the taste for mediæval architecture, which lingered in England during the two last centuries, has since been encouraged and developed (1872)
Eastlake, Charles L. (Charles Locke), 1836-1906 · London : Longmans, Green, and Co. ; New York : Scribner, Welford, and Co. · leaf 347
conversion tothe new doctrines. For its external effect the Chapel chiefly depends onits lofty proportions, on the varied character of the window tracery, onits massive buttresses, and on the highly ornate treatment of the southporch. In place of the ordinary dripstone over the window arches… … South Porch of Exeter College Chapel, Oxford.G. See//, A./., Architect, 1858 Exeter College Chapel and Library 295 the building terminates in a semi-octagonal apse, while towards the westand rising from the roof ridge a lofty wooden belfry lends grace anddignity to the design. It is, however, the…
Gothic revival (Architecture) · Architecture
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