An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (1877)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford: J. Parker and Co. · leaf 208
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… … 145. Deceratei Effiof, Sparskolt, Berkshire, €. 1350, posed; but it is lamentable to observe how fast theyare disappearing : that of the hall of the abbey ofGreat Malvern, the finest example that existed in thiscountry, or probably in any other, was wantonly de-stroyed : it was a wooden ceiling,…
Architecture, Gothic
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