Architectural notes on German churches, with notes written during an architectural tour in Picardy and Normandy (1842)
Whewell, William, 1794-1866, Lassaulx, F. de · Cambridge, J. and J. J. Deighton; [etc., etc.] · leaf 296
266 NOTES ON A TOUlt runs round the middle of the octagon is finished upwards with an ornament resembling the Tudor flower, and the open parapet at the top is set with fleurs de lis, which are seen quite free against the sky. Yet a closer examination makes us again doubt this being of a later style… … by the grounds of selection of that cognisance. The crockets are not distant and large, which is the Flamboyant fashion, hut moderate in size and as close as usual. The window sides have not the Flamboyant double hollow ; the mullions have bases and capitals ; and in the highest part, where the…
Church architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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