Westminster Abbey: Its Architecture, History and Monuments, Volume 1Duffield, 1914 - 864 pages |
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... vault , the stones " jointed together in the nicest manner " : and " storied win- dows , " perhaps an early example of the use of stained glass in England . The choir was under the lantern : the presbytery had two bays with a rounded ...
... vault , the stones " jointed together in the nicest manner " : and " storied win- dows , " perhaps an early example of the use of stained glass in England . The choir was under the lantern : the presbytery had two bays with a rounded ...
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... vault which the Confessor probably imitated from that of Jumièges . The Confessor's church had , we remember , an ambulatory , as has the Abbey today . The Westminster apse is five - sided , as at Rheims : but Jumièges had an apse of ...
... vault which the Confessor probably imitated from that of Jumièges . The Confessor's church had , we remember , an ambulatory , as has the Abbey today . The Westminster apse is five - sided , as at Rheims : but Jumièges had an apse of ...
Page 64
... vault in the choir and transept . Instead of starting the ribs in separ- ate voussoirs and then filling in with small stones , the conoid is built up to a considerable height of single blocks , with horizontal beds shaped in the proper ...
... vault in the choir and transept . Instead of starting the ribs in separ- ate voussoirs and then filling in with small stones , the conoid is built up to a considerable height of single blocks , with horizontal beds shaped in the proper ...
Page 88
... red stones and a beautiful altar frontal , the gift of Henry III , which took four women three and a half years to make , given the year before the King died . ble piece of work : but the vault and the 88 Westminster Abbey.
... red stones and a beautiful altar frontal , the gift of Henry III , which took four women three and a half years to make , given the year before the King died . ble piece of work : but the vault and the 88 Westminster Abbey.
Page 89
... vault and the roof are of later date . During these twenty years , 2,413 carts of stone were brought between July , 1413 , and Christ- mas , 1416 : and twenty masons were con- stantly employed . Henry V reigned but nine years . Build ...
... vault and the roof are of later date . During these twenty years , 2,413 carts of stone were brought between July , 1413 , and Christ- mas , 1416 : and twenty masons were con- stantly employed . Henry V reigned but nine years . Build ...
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