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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 84

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thechurch : it was the continual extension ofthe lighting area which in the end con-verted what had been walls into isolatedpiers, and brought about the characteristicfeature of perfected Gothic, skeleton con-struction ; all this development being rendered possible by the adoption of the… … F. 1;. Hales, Norfolk 560 ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE the wall—and only one window inserted in each bay of the aisle and clerestory ;when filled, as they would be in the Greater churches, with the thick, opaque,heavily coloured stained glass of the period, the interiors must have been…

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