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An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (1877)

Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford: J. Parker and Co. · leaf 229

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157. AH Saints, Stamford, Lincolnsliire, c. 1550.Porch with ogee crocketed canopy and pinnacles. nacles; open parapets, windows, and tabernacles withfigures, flanking the window or the outer arch, and 204 PERPENDICULAR PORCHES, in the interior a richly-groined vault. Very fine ex-amples of these… … 158. Bicester, Oxfordshire, c. 1420. In later examples we find ornament used to suchan excess as completely to overpower the features ofa building; no large space is left on which the eye canrest, but every portion is occupied with panelling orother ornament. An example of this may be seen inthe…

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