Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 158
purelyPointed and thor-oughly developed inevery part, though re-taining what in Eng-land is the great dis-tinguishing character-istic of the transition—the square abacus.The details are ex-ceedingly rich andbeautiful, while thevast thickness of itswalls gives to the in-terior a massive gran-deur… … Fig. 82.—Hexham Abbey. South side of Choir. 122 LECTURES ON [LECTURE III. of taste can visit it without finding his heart warm upwith admiration of its noble and beautiful architecture,which is excelled by few, if any, examples of its period. In the same northern district is Hexham Abbey, anoble…
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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