The ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England. Bedfordshire (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Oxfordshire, Suffolk).1852 |
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angle aumbry beautiful bell-cot blocked Brandon's Analysis buttresses CAMBRIDGE Cambridgeshire Camden Society's caps and bases carved chancel is E. E. chancel-arch chantry chapel character clerestory clerestory windows College corbels double piscina dows early east end east window Ely cathedral five lights flowing tracery foliated font is plain gable hood-mould lancet windows late lofty low side window Mary modern Monumental Brasses moulded caps mutilated nave nave has four nave with aisles niche north aisle north and south north side north transept original painted glass panelled pier-arches piers and arches piscina priest's door quarries quatrefoils racter rebuilt recess richly moulded RICKMAN rood-loft rood-screen roof round Saints sedilia shafts south aisle south doorway south porch south side square square-headed stoup style three lights tower and spire tower at west tower-arch tracery transept transition trefoil turret UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE vestry west doorway west end west tower windows inserted
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Page 100 - Ecclesiologist's Guide to the Churches within a circuit of Seven Miles round Cambridge. By FA Paley, MA 2s. PALMER.— Dissertations on some subjects relating to the " Or. thodox" Communion. By the Rev. W. Palmer, MA 10s. 6d. PARISH TALES. Reprinted from the •' Tales of a London Parish." In a packet, price Is. 6d. PATH OF LIFE. By the author of the "Seven Corporal Works of Mercy.
Page 121 - In the latter part of the long reign of Edward III. the Transition from the Decorated to the Perpendicular style began, and was almost completed by the time of the accession of Richard II. Some buildings of the Decorated style may be found of his reign...
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Page 121 - ... period, are of very decided Perpendicular character. Perhaps one of the earliest and best authenticated examples of this Transition, shewing a...
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Page 298 - ... there is a double sedile under one trefoil arch and a double piscina in the chancel ; the north side has a good porch and a fine EE door.