Rudimentary architecture: for the use of beginners. The history and description of the styles of architecture of various countries, from the earliest to the present period .. (1874)
Bury, Thomas Talbot, 1811-1877 · London, J. Weale · leaf 135
eculiarity of the Somerset-shire towers consists in the richly pierced parapets andpinnacles, the open stone-work of the belfry windows, andthe ornamental feature which the external stair turret isalmost always made. Perpendicular towers are very numerous in all parts of thekingdom: among such as… … Magdalen College, Oxford, Of the cathedrals wdiich have had .alterations made duringthe period we are now concluding, we may instance those ofWinchester, Gloucester, Canterbury, Norwich, Bristol, Wells,and Worcester. In oin- description of Gothic architecture, we have beenunder the necessity of…
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