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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 377

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n the earliest examples, e.g., theNorman aisle of Ely (573), the parapetrested, as had done the dripping eavesof thatch, tile, slates, or lead, on acorbel table. Sometimes the new wassubstituted for the old system of roofdrainage ; the old corbel table being re-tained, but the wall above it… … A\. M. Devizes : St. John ^T ^H^^J iwpf ■ ornament ; above it, in the followingcentury, was superposed a molded para-pet containing two bands of foliateddiaper (851). In Wells choir moldedcorbels carry a plain parapet of c. 1190.which is capped with a fourteenth-century ballrtower cornice and a…

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