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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Fig. 1. LITCHFIELD CATHEDRAL. G. W. ALLYN, M.D. a choir, transepts, nave and aisles. The elevation shows threedistinct stories (Fig. 3). I. THE NORMAN STYLE introduced by the monks who followed the Conqueror wasRomanesque. The early work was extremely rude, massiveand devoid of ornament. As seen in the Cathedral of Win-chester (Fig. 4), erected thirteen years after the landing ofof William, we observe the round heads of the arches, thecolumns are round and with a characteristic capital called 274
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Fig. 3. NORMAN INTERIOR (PETERBOROUGH). Illustrating Article The English Cathedrals, by G. W. Allyu, M.D. cushioned, the piers were massive and with square edges,the roof was barrel-shaped, the doors and windows weredeeply splayed or recessed and round-headed. An excellent specimen of Early Norman and one easilyvisited is the St. Johns Chapel in the White Tower, London.Later Norman while preserving the early essential of struc-ture became very beautiful with zig-zag and other ornaments,used to-day even; the doors in the front of Lincoln Cathedral(Fig. 5) furnish excellent examples. THE GOTHIC. About the year 1200, not to be exact, a great wave of newarchitectural ideas spread over all northern Europe. Thisheld sway and underwent many modifications in differentcountries for four hundred years, finally yielding to an ornateand beautiful restoration of the classical style called theRenaissance. A dominant feature of this Gothic style wasa pointed arch instead of a round one. To trace its

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