An introduction to English church architecture : from the eleventh to the sixteenth century (1913)
Bond, Francis, d. 1918 · London : H. Milford · leaf 47
ign (519, 520). At Wells thescroll capital, equally with the crocket capital, reaches the highest levels of designand execution. CAPITALS WITH NATURALISTIC FOLIAGE In the conventional leafao-e of the first half of the thirteenth centurv the Englishfoliated capital is seen at its hiq-hest perfection… … \ H ;i >-^ Rome : Laleran Museum but whose inspiration came not from the craftsman, but from Nature, which designedthe leaf, the flower, and the fruit. A lovely wreath of rose leaves and stems is to beseen on one of the bosses of the high vault of Westminster choir, 1260-1272;earlier examples of…
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