The Encyclopedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalCrown, 1982 - 1364 pages |
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Page 179
... period the change , or rather pro- gress , was extremely slow , and marked by little variation , and , indeed , until 1400 , the style can scarcely be said to have been perfected ; but after that time , it rapidly attained all the ...
... period the change , or rather pro- gress , was extremely slow , and marked by little variation , and , indeed , until 1400 , the style can scarcely be said to have been perfected ; but after that time , it rapidly attained all the ...
Page 183
... period , examples may be referred to at Grantham , Lincolnshire . Attelborough , Norfolk . Higham Ferrers , North- amptonshire . St. Michael , Coventry . Truro , Cornwall . Witney , Oxfordshire . Stratford- upon - Avon , Warwickshire ...
... period , examples may be referred to at Grantham , Lincolnshire . Attelborough , Norfolk . Higham Ferrers , North- amptonshire . St. Michael , Coventry . Truro , Cornwall . Witney , Oxfordshire . Stratford- upon - Avon , Warwickshire ...
Page 956
... period . Fig . 1206. , from Tatter- shall Castle , Lincoln- colnshire , belongs to Fig . 1207. ST . GEORGE'S CHAPEL . the Florid English or perpendicular period , whose simplest doorways usually had the depressed or Tudor arch , and ...
... period . Fig . 1206. , from Tatter- shall Castle , Lincoln- colnshire , belongs to Fig . 1207. ST . GEORGE'S CHAPEL . the Florid English or perpendicular period , whose simplest doorways usually had the depressed or Tudor arch , and ...
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