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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 276

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the total hcMj^ht, became usual in l^iglish and still more in FrenchGothic. In a few instances the single containing- arch was divided not into two hutinto three or four minor arches ; r.^:, St. P)artholomew, .Smithfield, Tutbury, andMalmesbury (738). A more ambitious desio-n appears in (iothic, in… … s. s. Lincoln Retro-choir into smaller arches ; this is seen in Whitby,^ York transept, the eastern bayof Rievaulx choir (748), the north side of Bridlington,- and Salisbury,^ in the lastof which the containing arch is unpleasantly obtuse (752). Such arcades, so far asthey retain the semicircular…

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