Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · London, Oxford, James Parker · leaf 174
162 THE DECORATED STYLE. The Buttresses 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 … often terminate in pinnacles, as Bttttosses of Clance1' Stanton 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 this style, which have a very rich effect,…
Architecture, Gothic · England -- Oxford
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