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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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e plan of tlie ;jambs, and fig. 1175. oftlie mouldings of tlie archover them, to the earlyEnglish choir at Foun-tains Abliey, Yorkshire.Figx. 1176. and I 177. arethe similar portions to tliegeometric choir at Tin-tern Abbey, Rlonmouth-shire. rhesame;)ublicationgives, amongst its nmne-rous details, the elaborategrouping of mouldings tothe magnificent east (fit/s.11 78. and 1179.) and west(figs. 1180. and II81.)windows of this building,which is somewhat transi-tional to the decorated))eri<)d, and of very greatbeauty. Fig. 1182. is thejamb mouldings to thetlecoratcd east window atHowden Church, York-shire, showing a passagein the wall, whichmateiially deterioratesfrom the good effectof the window. The following illus-trations are fromHenry VIIs Chapel.Fig. 1183. is the walljamb to the first cantof the angular win-dows to the aisles.Fig. 1184. is the firstar.gle mullion of thecircular or bow win-dows ; it also showsthe arrangement fortlieinullions or monials,and (L) the mitring OUTSIDE
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Fig. 1185. UPNRV VII.s cnAfEL. HEXr.Y Vll.S CHAPEL. Chai. III. CIRCULAR WINDOWS. 99:; with tlie wall-work inside. Fig. 1185. is the jamb mouldings of the upper range, ortlie clerestory windows. These are all reduced from Cottinghams work on this building, and are, to some extent, shown in the interior eleva-tion of the bay, given in jig. ) 325. The section of the jambs to the windows of theclerestory at Winchester Cathedral is given in Jig.1303. ; to the windows of Kings College Chapel,Cambridge, in fig. 1312. ; to tliose of St. GeorgesChapel, Windsor, in fig. 1316. ; and to tliose in theclerestory at Amiens Cathedral, in fig. 1329. The arch planes worked in the same buildings,have been placed on pages 971., 972., and 973.,wliile the series of mouldings to the arches ofHenry VII.s Chapel will be found very poor incomparison, as may be observed in fig. 1325. f^ /

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