An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (1877)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford: J. Parker and Co. · leaf 209
kMinster and Winchester Cathe-dral are also of wood only. Thehideous fashion of plain, flat,white plaster ceilings which pre-vailed during the last century,and by which so many fine roofswere destroyed, has caused, bya very natural reaction, a strongprejudice against ceilings of anykind, but this… … DECORATED ROOFS, to be considered is how best to make them ornamentalalso, as they were formerly. The Buttkesses in this style have great variety offorms and of degrees of richness. Sometimes they arequite plain, or merely have the angles chamfered off,and terminated by a slope,either under the…
Architecture, Gothic
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