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Title: An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: Oxford: J. Parker and Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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bracket at the east end, as shewn in plan. D. A small chamber, (pointed triangular roof, formed with large flatstones,) 5 ft. 4 in. by 3 ft. 6 in.; height to apex of roof 8 ft. E. A passage, 2 ft. 6 in. broad, length to angle 8 ft. 6 in., elbow 4 ft., flatroof covered with large stones. F. A small chamber, 6 ft. by 3 ft. 6 in., with a pointed triangular roof,same as D. G. A passage, 2 ft. 6 in. broad, 6 ft. 6 in. high, length to angle 13 ft. 6 in.,elbow to north 4 ft., walled up with dry stones. H. A Roman inscribed slab forms the cover to this angle of the passage. The dotted half-circles at the openings from one chamber to another, arearched doorways about 6 ft. 3 in. in height. The crypt at Ripon is similar as to the general plan of passages roundthree sides of a central cell, but the entrances are not arranged quite in thesame manner. THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD. IJ window is inserted in the old wall. The exterior is ornamentedwith shallow arcading of very unusual character, being only
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7. View and Plan of the Anglo-Saxon Church at Bradford-on-Avon,Wiltshire, A.D. 705. incised in the surface of the stone, and not regularly built asarches, nor projecting, so that this ornament might have beencut at any subsequent time after the church was built, but itis itself of rude and early character. This curious building isprobably the small original church of the abbey founded by 16 THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD. St.Aldhelm in the eighth century, a.d. 705. It is mentionedby William of Malmesbury, as existing in his time™. It stoodoriginally in the same churchyard with the present largechurch, part of which is of the time of Henry II. This goodconstruction may be partly accounted for by the excellentquality of the material, and the situation, in the midst of, orunder quarries of excellent stone, of the quality usually knownas Bath stone, an oolite very similar to the Caen stone; butthis is not sufficient to account for the absence of wide jointsof mortar, which are an invariable cha

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