Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 218
progress of disintegration,and which has set and hardened the crumbling parti-cles, which the gentlest touch r would have before displaced. The foliated carving inWestminster Abbey unites thetwo great types which charac-terise this century—the con-ventional and the natural—and contains some of the… … Fig. in.—Conventional Foliage,Chapel of St. John Baptist,Westminster Abbey. 1 Since writing this I have had the privilege of restoring it, and in thesedays of ante-restoration I am glad that so clear a record had been kept ofits previous condition. (G. G. S. 1878.) N i78 LECTURES ON [LECTURE V.…
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