Identifier: antiquitiesofen01gros (find matches)
Title: The antiquities of England and Wales
Year: 1785 (1780s)
Authors: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
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Publisher: London : S. Hooper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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PREFACE. in The characteriftic marks of this ftyle are thefe : The walls are very thick, generally without buttrelTes; the arches, both within and without, as well as thofe over the doors and windows,femicircular, and fuported by very folid, or rather clumfy columns, with a kind of regular bafe and capital: in fhort, plainnefs and folidity conftitute the finking features of this method of building. Neverthelefs, the architects of thofe days fometimes deviated from this rule: their capitals were adorned with carvings of foliage, and even animals j and their mafhve columns decorated with fmall half columns united to them, and their furfaces ornamented with fpirals, fquares, lozenge network and other figures, either engraved, or in relievo: various inftances of thefe may be feen in the cathedral of Canterbury, particularly the under-croft?, the monaftery at Lindisfarn or Holy Ifland, the cathedral at Durham, and the ruined choir at Orford in Suffolk, (h) Their arches too, though generally plain,

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