An analysis of Gothic architecture Illustrated by a series of upwards of seven hundred examples of doorways, windows, mouldings, roofs, arches, crosses, panels, buttresses, seats, screens, etc., and accompanied with remarks on the several details of an ecclesiastical edifice . rminate in a kind of trefoiledridge. In Bottisham Church,Cambridgeshire (Section I. De-corated, Plate 19), they are alsosimilarly finished, with the ad-dition of beautifully moldedchamfers at the angles, and apvTCHLEv Cut K. M nssniKK. trcfoilcd paucl on the face. Dronfield (Jhurch, Derbyshire, has some magnificent examp
An analysis of Gothic architecture Illustrated by a series of upwards of seven hundred examples of doorways, windows, mouldings, roofs, arches, crosses, panels, buttresses, seats, screens, etc., and accompanied with remarks on the several details of an ecclesiastical edifice . rminate in a kind of trefoiledridge. In Bottisham Church,Cambridgeshire (Section I. De-corated, Plate 19), they are alsosimilarly finished, with the ad-dition of beautifully moldedchamfers at the angles, and apvTCHLEv Cut K. M nssniKK. trcfoilcd paucl on the face. Dronfield (Jhurch, Derbyshire, has some magnificent examples in the Chancel, worked in two stages with both set-offs gabled, and enriched with tracery. In Debenham Church, Suffolk (Section I. Decorated, Plate 19), is an instance of a l)uttress having a niche with an ogeed and trefoliated head, beautifully finialled, and flanked by diminu-tive crocketed buttresses. Another very interesting specimen occurs at the east of All Saints Church, Colchester. At Towccstcr Cluirch, Northants, the niche is placed on tlio side instead of tlie face. The l)uttresscs from Kcdgrave Clun-ch, Suffolk, are of perfect beauty; very lofty and rising in graduated stages, they terminate in gables with trefoiled ridges, and have very elegant foliated.
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