An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders . s, and are, like the capitals,sometimes continued round thecentre shaft. Another and richercapital is sometimes used, whichhas leaves like those in the capi-tals of the door shafts. Thiskind of capital is generally usedwhere the shafts entirely encompass the centre one, as at Yorkand Lincoln, and hasa very fine effect, theleaves being generallyextremely well exe-cuted. [Occasionally heads,or birds, or animals,are introduced amongthe foliage, a
An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders . s, and are, like the capitals,sometimes continued round thecentre shaft. Another and richercapital is sometimes used, whichhas leaves like those in the capi-tals of the door shafts. Thiskind of capital is generally usedwhere the shafts entirely encompass the centre one, as at Yorkand Lincoln, and hasa very fine effect, theleaves being generallyextremely well exe-cuted. [Occasionally heads,or birds, or animals,are introduced amongthe foliage, as in thebeautiful tombof Arch-bishop Walter Gray,in York Cathedral. Inthis instance and atRomsey the foliage isallowed to creep upover the abacus, but ingeneral the abacus isallowed to stand clearwith its deep undercutmouldings.] The bases used arefrequently near ap-proaches in contour tothe Grecian attic base,but the reversed ogeeis sometimes is another pier,in buildings that ap-pear to be of this style,which is at times very StHughsCnioir, Lincoln Cathedral, 1200. confusing, as the same kind of pier seems to be used in small. Beverley Minster, c. 1220.
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