Inside Out Library · Explore

An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (1877)

Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford: J. Parker and Co. · leaf 207

An illustration from An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture, 1877, leaf 207
rated Piscina, Fyfield, Berkshire, c. 1300.Piscina shewing g-eometrical tracery, IHE GrKOIIs^ED ixOOIS, with a crocketed pediment and pm--^T- T ;. nacles, and a battlement. on VAULTS, are distm- guished from those of the preceding style chiefly byan additional number of ribs, and by the… … g The wooden groined vaults of Chester Cathedral were carefully re-stored in 1871-72, with excellent effect and in very good taste. DECORATED ROOFS, 183 There are a few instances of stone roofs of this styleover narrow spaces of very high pitch, supported byopen-work, as if in imitation of…

Architecture, Gothic

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture

More like this