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 95
ned by sculpture of the Saviour, angels, saints, oranimals; the figure of our Lord is also sometimes enclosed in 84 RUDIMENTARY ARCHITECTURE. the vesica piscis,* as in the beautiful doorway on the southside of the nave of Ely cathedral: at other times the tym-panum is ornamented by a representation… … Ioich ol Southwell Church. combating the dragon : numerous instances are to be foundof symbolical sculpture on the tympana of Norman doorways, * This is a most ancient mystical figure, and is represented in severalbasilica mosaics and Saxon MSS. Mr. Hope, p. 163, calls it the roughoutline of the…
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