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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 34

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leierborough Romsey … Ely leafage is not naturalistic, but conventional, and assumes the forms of a volute or ofscroll work or of both. Its special characteristic is the rendering of stalk as well asleaf, so that the foliage shall seem to be actually grov/ing out of the upper coursesof the pier. In some early capitals…

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