Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 165
ould be repeated, — in the one system horizontal stones lying upon upright ones (as at Stone House) or upon piers (Fig. 276), and in the other the openings being covered by a series of arches (Fig. 277) ; the colonnade being the ultimate result in the one case, the arcade in the other. To… … Fig. 278. Fig. 279. Fig. 280. in the arch, either to individualise the arch-stones by chamfering their edges, as the Romans often did, or to relieve their plain surface by moulding, the latter being best suited where the stones made use of are of only moderate size (Fig. 279). The mouldings of the…
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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