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The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire (1883)

Lefroy, William, 1836-1900 · London, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday · leaf 96

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ch with a window of three lights. The mouldingsof these windows, as of the centre, are very rich,—oak-leaves predominating in the former and vines in thelatter. The whole is supported by four deep andmassive buttresses, of which the corner ones aregrouped each with two others in a cluster of… … Bolton, Guisborough, and Kirkliam. 61 now teriantless niche with crocketed canopy, thebases being level with that of the great window.Above each buttress there rises from the main wall acrocketed octagonal spire. Over the centre window,and also above the indications of the vaulting, isanother…

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