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Page 88
... English Gothic churches in general . It is on this point that continental , and especially French , criticism concentrates ; and one understands why . With a shape like this , concentrated spatial effects in the French sense are ...
... English Gothic churches in general . It is on this point that continental , and especially French , criticism concentrates ; and one understands why . With a shape like this , concentrated spatial effects in the French sense are ...
Page 121
... English Gothic architecture which , in Thomas Rickman's somewhat arbitrary terminology , now impossible to reject , are known as Early English and Decorated stands one of the finest of all England's churches : Westminster Abbey . Work ...
... English Gothic architecture which , in Thomas Rickman's somewhat arbitrary terminology , now impossible to reject , are known as Early English and Decorated stands one of the finest of all England's churches : Westminster Abbey . Work ...
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... English landed class , with Lord Burlington as their architectural leader , veered back to the strictest and most formal Classicism . Nearly four hundred years earlier , the pendulum of English Gothic also swung decisively back ...
... English landed class , with Lord Burlington as their architectural leader , veered back to the strictest and most formal Classicism . Nearly four hundred years earlier , the pendulum of English Gothic also swung decisively back ...
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