Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 362
ways open to the student. The comparison between the works of Henry III.and of Edward I. form an interesting study, asshowing the one step onward in the second stage ofthe work. / lecture viii.] MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE. 311 Of the age of this second work, you have severalgorgeous specimens in the… … Fig. 176.—Westminster Abbey. Fig. 177.—Westminster Abbey. Of foliated carving you have admirable specimens,both of the most refined form of the conventional kind,and of the earliest form in which natural foliage wasmade use of (Figs. 176, 177). You have, in the tombsof Eleanor, Crouchback, and…
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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