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An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (1877)

Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford: J. Parker and Co. · leaf 76

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FIRST. 51 twenty-two pillars, here are twenty-eight. There the archesand everything else was plain, or sculptured with an axe andnot with a chisel (30); but here, almost throughout, is appro-priate sculpture. No marble columns were there, but here areinnumerable ones. There in the circuit around… … 30. Part of Arcade, Canterbury.Shewing the junction of the old and new work. the choir by no such partition, and converge together in onekey-stone, which is placed in the middle of the great vault,which rests upon the four principal pillars. There, there wasa ceiling of wood decorated with…

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