An introduction to English church architecture : from the eleventh to the sixteenth century (1913)
Bond, Francis, d. 1918 · London : H. Milford · leaf 226
framingwindow and doorway into onecomposition, as at Oakham andEssendine, Rutland,^ and South-wold, Suffolk, seldom found favour.The western doorway was not,as might be expected, the chiefentrance into the church ; thisis shewn, among other things, bythe fact that it is comparativelyseldom… … J. s. Adel, Yorkshire So general is the omission of western doorways in mediaeval parish churches that it has been held thatthe presence of one indicates that the church was either collegiate or monastic or dependent on some monasticchurch. Of 259 pre-Reformation churches in Shropshire Mr Cranage…
Church architecture · Cathedrals
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