Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 74
52 LECTURES ON [lecture x. The most numerous of the Anglo-Saxon remains are the bell-towers. These have almost always the peculiar characteristics which I have already noticed. Their number is so great that it would be impossible to enter into any enumeration of them. One of the best known,… … remarkable of its class, uniting the profuse use of pilaster strips, diagonal strips, arched strips, long and short work, baluster columns, and other characteristics of the style (Fig. 226). I have noticed here that the majority of the arches are so in form rather than in construction, some being…
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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