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History of mediaeval art (1887)

Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 416

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on of the wooden beams is unmistakable,and in like manner the adoption of designs of timbered constructionsare evident in the galleries and groups of windows, the small columnsof which resemble balusters, being without any of the traditionalforms of bases and capitals, while the encircling fillets… … Fig- 233.—Tower of Earls Barton. 3So ARCHITECTURE OF THE ROMANIC EPOCH. in this connection that the capitals, bases, and arches of the AbbeyChurch of Waltham, built between 1062 and 1066, are said to havebeen reveted with sheets of gilded copper. This empaistic work,which would have been impossible…

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