An introduction to English church architecture : from the eleventh to the sixteenth century (1913)
Bond, Francis, d. 1918 · London : H. Milford · leaf 71
mixture of molded and unmolded abaci. A simplecapital like that of Limpsfield, Surrey (540), or that of r. in the Boxgrove clere-story, is quite satisfactory : nevertheless it is but rarely found, the carvers everexperimenting by altering the form of the rolls and by adding new combinations 1 For… … (j. G. i;. Dote ; East Knd of fillets and quirks, as at Moulton, Rippingale (540), etc. So lonor as this type of capital prevailed, it was seldomforgotten that the abacus was a distinctmember from the capital, the distinctionbeing marked by the hollow in theundersurface of the abacus to get depthof…
Church architecture · Cathedrals
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