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Title: An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863 Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894
Subjects: Architecture Architects
Publisher: London Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Architecture Landscape Design - University of Toronto
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OlAP III. ^MOULDINGS IN WOODWORK. 985 carving the most dls;inct relief; and it is an effect strictly lawful, because it was impossiblein oilier material, and yet natural in woodwork. The same attention to the material willbe found exemplified very remarkably in all old wooden mouldings. The accompanyingillustrations (^Jiys. \l?A. and 1135) will show how extraordinarily minute, delicate, andsliarj) they were. In the stalls at Selby we see an elabo-rate cap, only I5 inches high ; at Winchester, a band ^tlisof an incli in lieight, and yet consisting of four distinctmeujhers, and showing in elevation as many as eight
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Scale 2 in. to 1 ft. Fig. 1136. SCREEN; koi;tiifli;et. FiR. 1137. distinct lines. The finish of the wall plates in the porch at Horsemonden, and thecarving of the miserere seat, so curiously preserved in the midst of woodwork some threeiiundred years later h\ date, in Henry VII.s chaptl, are fair illustrations of the goodnessof tlie earlier sculpture, • The whole of tlie early mouldings are sharp, delicate, minute, and (;uaintly undercut.They are very often unlike any stone mouldings, just as many wooden traceries (e g. thoseof the screen at St. INIarys hospital, at Chichester (Ji(!. 11;5.5.), and the stalls at Lancaster),are (juite unlike what could conveniently be executed in sto.ie. In spite of a bad fashinnwliich obtains just now, among some of the present medi.-pval architects, of ignoring;he value of mouldings, I maintain that they prove conclusively the existence of a schoolof art in this country of almost unsurpassable excellence. Street, On Eniilish IVnodwurkin the VMli and

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