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An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (1877)

Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford: J. Parker and Co. · leaf 188

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st havebeen completed before1290. The sacristy, towhich the bursars rollsgive the positive date of1307, is certainly twentyyears later in characterthan the choir. Thetower-arches were noterected until 1330, andthe transept was not com-pleted until 1424, thetower not till 1450 ; thesewere built by… … 121. Merton Collej?e Chapel, Oxford,A.D. 1280-1290. Shewing geometrical tracery,of which is still disputed, hut c The date of 1277 has long been assigned to this, because the work hasevidently been left unfinished for a long period, and this was supposedto have been caused by the sudden death of…

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