Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · London : Parker and Co. · leaf 174
162 THE DECOEATED STYLE, The Butteesses in this style have great variety of forms and of degrees of richness. Sometimes they are quite plain, or merely have the angles chamfered off, and terminated by a slope, ei- … . • . • i Buttresses of Chancel, Stanton often terminate in pinnacles, as nj. T , ’ r 9 St. John, Oxon. at Gadsby, Leicestershire. In large buildings there are fine arch-buttresses spanning over the aisles, as at Howden. There are sometimes also groups of pinnacles round the base of the spire in…
Architecture, Gothic
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