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An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (1877)

Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford: J. Parker and Co. · leaf 171

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ed dooorways may readily be distin*guished by their mouldings; they are commonly earlyin the style, but by no means always so: segmentalarches also occur, though rarely. The larger doorwaysare generally deeply recessed and richly moulded, andin the best examples both the arches and jambs… … 109. St. Cross, HampsMre, c. 1250. Doorway, shewing- an obtuse arch richly moulded, with a dripstone ter-minated by corbels of foliage, and with the tooth-ornament: two sub-arches trefoiled, with a quatrefoil in the head. Chester (109), is double, with two trefoil-headed open-ings under one obtuse…

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