Manual of ecclesiastical architecture. Comprising a study of its various styles, the chronological arrangements of its elements, and its relation to Christian worship (1897)
Martin, William Wallace, 1851- · Cincinnati, Curts & Jennings; New York, Eaton & Mains · leaf 220
9. of its choir, nave, and spires; it is early Gothic inthe comparative plainness of its flying buttresses andfinials; the lancet-pointed archesare evidences ofthe early Gothic.But the long,narrow, perpen-dicular divisionsof the tower-fronts are re-minders of theRomanesquerather than theGothic… … CATHBDRAI^ OF COUTANCliS. is Gothic. However, the Gothic principles and modesof decoration had not been emancipated from the influ-ences of the Romanesque style. As far as classificationmay be made of church edifices, this cathedral is earlyGothic, having the lancet-arch; the almost solid…
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