 | Robert Willis - Cathedrals - 1845 - 204 pages
...the destruction of the choir. And now he addressed himself to the procuring of stone from beyond sea. He constructed ingenious machines for loading and...unloading ships, and for drawing cement and stones. He delivered molds for shaping the stones to the sculptors who were assembled, and diligently prepared... | |
 | George Ayliffe Poole - Church architecture - 1848 - 478 pages
...destruction of the choir. " And now he addressed himself to the procuring of stone from beyond sea. He constructed ingenious machines for loading and...unloading ships, and for drawing cement and stones. He delivered moulds for shaping the stones to the sculptors who were assembled, and diligently prepared... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 618 pages
...things, to live in security. 'And now he addressed himself to the procuring of stone from beyond the sea. He constructed ingenious machines for loading and...unloading ships, and for drawing cement and stones. He delivered moulds for shaping the stones to the sculptors who were assembled, and diligently prepared... | |
 | Charles William Colby - Great Britain - 1899 - 378 pages
...the destruction of the choir. And now he addressed himself to the procuring of stone from beyond sea. He constructed ingenious machines for loading and...unloading ships, and for drawing cement and stones. He delivered moulds for shaping the stones to the sculptors who were assembled, and diligently prepared... | |
 | Charles William Colby - Great Britain - 1899 - 398 pages
...the destruction of the choir. And now he addressed himself to the procuring of stone from beyond sea. He constructed ingenious machines for loading and...unloading ships, and for drawing cement and stones. He delivered moulds for shaping the stones to the sculptors who were assembled, and diligently prepared... | |
 | John Fitchen - Architecture - 1981 - 371 pages
...nature of the machinery employed at this time, it is to be noted that up till the latter part of the XII century only small stones were used in building in...of the stones of which it is constructed.' 'In the XIII century the advance of mechanical skill was such as to make the use of comparatively large material... | |
 | Teresa Grace Frisch - Art - 1987 - 196 pages
...the destruction of the choir. And now he addressed himself to the procuring of stone from beyond sea. He constructed ingenious machines for loading and...unloading ships, and for drawing cement and stones. He delivered molds for shaping the stones to the sculptors who were assembled, and diligently prepared... | |
 | Nicola Coldstream - Architecture - 1991 - 78 pages
...new choir of Canterbury Cathedral: 'He addressed himself to the procuring of stone beyond the sea. He constructed ingenious machines for loading and...unloading ships, and for drawing cement and stones. He delivered moulds [templates] for 15 Peter Parler, the architect of Prague Cathedral and the greatest... | |
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At length they agreed, being convinced by reason and wishing to have the work as good as he promised, and above all things to live in security; thus they consented patiently, if not willingly, to the destruction of the choir. And now he addressed himself... 