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Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales (1836)

Winkles, Benjamin, Garland, Robert, Architect, Moule, Thomas, 1784-1851 · London : E. Wilson and C. Tilt · leaf 119

An illustration from Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales, 1836, leaf 119
hitecture in England, p. 55. 17 The cathedrals of York, Lincoln, and Ely, contain, at this time, not only themost exquisitely wrought and variously designed specimens of sculpture, and minutercarving, but those which remain to us in the greatest perfection. The patternsare composed of geometrical… … . . ili«inals i_ d T © ■ I. I CATIED 18 Vi F S I 70RK CATHEDRAL. 47 part, beautifully diverge into what has been not unaptly calledflamboyant tracery, a mode of construction peculiar to the four-teenth century. The outer mouldings of this large window arccontinued by crockets on the gable-formed…

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