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History of mediaeval art (1887)

Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 559

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rated in 1185,show further indications of the new style, notably in the ribbedvaults and in the clustered columns. The only English building of the twelfth century which is knownwith certainty to have been designed by an architect of NorthernFrance, well acquainted with the chief features of the… … Fig. 324.—Plan of the Cathedral of Canterbury. Sens, whose architectural skill had without doubt been broughtto the notice of the canons of Canterbury through ArchbishopThomas a Becket, who had taken refuge in Sens shortly before hisassassination in 1170. The Choir of Canterbury {Fig. 324), built…

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