Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 207
imity of the sentiments expressed. The portals of Notre Dame at Paris, of Amiens,and of Chartres, may be instanced as among the moststriking examples ; but all great churches of the endof the twelfth and of the thirteenth century have thesame truly glorious approaches, well calculated tosolemnise… … Fig. 109.— Western Portals, south entrance, St. Albans Cathedral.* LECTURE IV.] MEDI/LVAL ARCHITECTURE. 167 eastern part of Lincoln—a truly noble portal ;x but onthe whole, though of a different class, the most dignifiedapproach to any English cathedral is the westernporch of Ely.2 St. Albans has…
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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