An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (1900)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · London : J. Parker · leaf 227
YorkMinster and Winchester Cathe-dral are also of wood only. Thehideous fashion of plain, flat,white plaster ceilings which pre-vailed during the last century,and by which so many fine roofswere destroyed, has caused, bya very natural reaction, a strongprejudice against ceilings of anykind, but… … DECORATED ROOFS. i8s to be considered is how best to make them ornamentalalso, as they were formerly. The Butteksses in this style have great variety offorms and of degrees of richness. Sometimes they arequite plain, or merely have the angles chamfered off,and terminated by a slope,cither under the…
Architecture, Gothic
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