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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York : The Century co. · leaf 393

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SCHOOLS OF GOTHIC ORNAMENT long pendants (retro-choir of Peterboro; cloisters of Gloucester; King’s College Chapel, Henry VII’s chapel at Westminster, etc.). The decorative splendor of the … Fig. 374 A. Open-Timber Ceiling, Lavenham Church, Suffolk. English vaulting is of the highest order, and nothing equal to these vaults is found in any other school of Gothic design (Figure 30 b) . No less remarkable are the superb oaken ceilings borne on huge arched trusses, of which the highest…

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