The imperial island; England's chronicle in stone; (1886)
Hunnewell, James Frothingham, 1832-1910 · Boston, Ticknor · leaf 297
canopies on the arcades, and making stripes of toomuch prominence. Enamelled tiles, chiefly yellow or deep-brown (the former prevailing), make the pavement in keepingwith the coloring on the graceful vaults, on which numeroussmall figures are painted on a background of pale-bluish gray,relieved by… … YORK. 211 crypts at Canterbury or Glasgow, is very interesting and exten-sive ; for it is almost as long as the choir, and contains curiouswork, the earliest of which is a piece of masonry laid in theherring-bone manner, thought to be a part of the side of theearly Saxon church. Otherwise the…
Architecture
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