Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 43
umbrian coast, by St. Cuthbert, himself a Scot or perhaps an Irishman. Those in the north of Ireland and in Scotland seem to have been usually of timber, " more Scotorum" as Bede says, and have consequently perished ; but in the south and west of Ireland they were of stone, and remain, in many in-… … Fig. 199.— Leather Book-case. were followed up even the decorative arts, — as illumination, embroidery, and jewellery. Such, no doubt, was the famous monas- tery of Iona, which, as an able historian says, " soon be- came, morally and religiously, a spectacle as glorious as any that Christendom…
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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