An introduction to English church architecture : from the eleventh to the sixteenth century (1913)
Bond, Francis, d. 1918 · London : H. Milford · leaf 17
, the plain faces of this capital received painted ornament,as in FJy transept, and occasionally the painted ornament was afterwards carved.The crypt of Canterbury cathedral and the Chapel of the Pyx at \\estminstershew the process of carving the faces of the capitals only partly completed.… … F. H. (■ Chester St. John SCALLOPED CAPITALS Another obvious method of ornamenting the plain cubical capital was tosubdivide it ; in this way the .so-called scalloped capital is obtained. At first thescallops were few, as at South Stoke (548) ; but by the middle of the century fl I, III ■Bir
Church architecture · Cathedrals
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