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Page 113
... example , but the four New Red sandstone cathedrals also fared badly . The redesigning and replacement a few years ago of most of the pretentious and trumpery Victorian fittings in the choir at Salisbury effected so great an improvement ...
... example , but the four New Red sandstone cathedrals also fared badly . The redesigning and replacement a few years ago of most of the pretentious and trumpery Victorian fittings in the choir at Salisbury effected so great an improvement ...
Page 114
... example of composition in lancets . Again , at ground- level , there is a trefoiled arcade , whose spandrels once contained a very lively series of narrative sculptures : but vandals smashed most of them and they had to be extensively ...
... example of composition in lancets . Again , at ground- level , there is a trefoiled arcade , whose spandrels once contained a very lively series of narrative sculptures : but vandals smashed most of them and they had to be extensively ...
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... example of the Flowing type . The much larger east window of the Lady Chapel , seen on the left , is no longer purely Geometrical , but too hesitant as yet to be described as Flowing . Both windows are examples of the kind of Decorated ...
... example of the Flowing type . The much larger east window of the Lady Chapel , seen on the left , is no longer purely Geometrical , but too hesitant as yet to be described as Flowing . Both windows are examples of the kind of Decorated ...
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aesthetically altar Angel Choir apse arches architect artistic beautiful bosses building built buttresses Canterbury capitals carved central pier central tower chapter chapter-house characteristic choir aisles church clerestory cloisters colour corbels Coventry crypt Decorated Decorated period dome doorway Durham east end engaged shafts England English cathedrals English Gothic example Exeter exterior façade feature finest foliage fourteenth century France ft high gables Gloucester Gothic architecture Grinling Gibbons horizontal interior Lady Chapel lancets later less Lichfield lierne ribs lierne vault limestone Lincoln lofty looking east mediaeval mouldings nave north transept Norwich octagonal original ornamental pair Perp Perpendicular Peterborough porch presbytery proportions pulpitum Purbeck marble rebuilding retro-choir ribs Romanesque rood screen roof Salisbury sandstone sculpture SEXPARTITE VAULT side south-west Southwell spandrels spire St Albans St Paul's stained glass stalls stiff-leaf stone style survived tierceron tracery transept tribune triforium vertical Victorian wall west front west tower Winchester York