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A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)

Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 132

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cept for aslight attenuation of detail, this might easily be mistaken forwork a hundred and fifty years earlier. The most remarkableinstance at Oxford is the latest. Brasenose Chapel was com-pleted in 1666. The north window of the ante-chapel has flow-ing geometrical tracery, but is framed into an… … THE CHAPEL, LYTE S-CARY, SOMERSET. io6 LAST SURVIVALS OF GOTHIC [chap, vi ture. Indeed, this Oxford seventeenth-century Gothic is themost curious in England. It persistently peeps out throughRenaissance ornaments and classic frontispieces—cusps andcrockets mix indiscriminately with orders and…

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