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An introduction to English church architecture : from the eleventh to the sixteenth century (1913)

Bond, Francis, d. 1918 · London : H. Milford · leaf 269

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E. c. Southwell Nave of blackest shadow intermediate between the brightness of the clerestory and thesubdued light of the nave below. It is remarkable that this most effective contrastingof light and gloom found little favour in France, except in Normandy, e^:, thechoir of the Abbaye-aux-hommes;… … G.G. S. Hereford Cathedral : the Presbytery 744 TIIK TRIFORIUM AND BAY DICSIGN 745 to carry the vast upper weight of churches so much broader and loftier than ourown. In I^igland the open bhndstory appeared here and there, l)Ut infrequently, ineleventh and twelfth century design ; but in the…

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