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Some account of domestic architecture in England, from Richard II to Henry VIII (1859)

Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford London, J. H. and J. Parker · leaf 256

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ck, who was abbot from1374 to 1420. The Abbey Barn is a noble structure, with very excellentdetail. It is cruciform, the transepts forming the entrances.The north and south fronts are divided by a boldly-projectingbuttress; above this is an evangelistic symbol—the four occu-pying the four… … GEORGE INN, GLASTONBURY, SOMERSETSHIRE. W. Twnpeny, UH. O. Jewitt, »r. SOMERSETSHIRE. 341 of an abbot. On each side of the central buttress is a slit, andabove it a cross-oylet. The sides of the barn are lighted byslits between massive buttresses, internally they have segmentalrear-arches. The…

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