The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture: With an Explanation of Technical Terms, and a Centenary of Ancient Terms |
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Abbey Church ancient angles Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon architecture appears arcades architecture architrave beam braces Brixworth buildings buttresses Canterbury Cathedral capitals chancel chancel arch Chapel choir church of St clerestory compartments consists construction corbel covered crocketted crypt Decorated Derbyshire detail divided doorway dripstone Early English east end east wall embattled erected exhibits external face fifteenth century foliage fourteenth century groined head Herefordshire hollow mouldings hood moulding horizontal imposts jambs Kent Lancet Leicestershire lights Lincoln Cathedral Lincolnshire masonry mullions nave nave and chancel Norman style Northamptonshire numerous occur ogee ornamental Oxford Oxford Cathedral Oxfordshire panel-work parapet Peterborough Cathedral pier arches pierced pinnacles plain Plates pointed arch principal projecting quatrefoils rafters ribs rich Roman rude Salisbury Cathedral sculptured semicircular arches semicircular-headed shafts shire soffits sometimes south aisle south side specimen spire spring square square-headed stone stringcourse surmounted tower tracery transept trefoil twelfth century vaulting Warwickshire whilst Winchester Cathedral wooden roof zig-zag