The Story of Architecture in Oxford Stone
The Story of Architecture in Oxford Stone
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G. Over a tomb-recess at Waterperry (Fig. 122), and in the niches of S. Mary Magdalene buttresses. A small doorway in Witney Church has an ogee arch, and in some districts, e. G. Northampton- shire, window-arches of this form are not uncommon. In the heads of the lights the ogee arch is almost universal THE ARCH 135 in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and its curves dominate the tracery from about 1310 almost to the end FIG. 47. FOUR-CENTRED ARCH FIG. 48.
LATE FOUR-CENTRED ARCH FIG. 49. ...FOURTEENTH-CENTURY DOORWAY, WITNEY of the century. It was one of the few Gothic forms that had any attraction for Wren, who used it in his doorway to the Divinity School (Fig. 17), and in the curves of his 136 THE GRAMMAR OF ARCHITECTURE dome at Christ Church ; he seems also to have altered the arch of the great window over the gateway to make it correspond with the dome above.
Another ornamental form, in the thirteenth century, was the trefoil arch, formed from three circles having their centres at the angles of an equilateral triangle.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
G. Over a tomb-recess at Waterperry (Fig. 122), and in the niches of S. Mary Magdalene buttresses. A small doorway in Witney Church has an ogee arch, and in some districts, e. G. Northampton- shire, window-arches of this form are not uncommon. In the heads of the lights the ogee arch is almost universal THE ARCH 135 in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and its curves dominate the tracery from about 1310 almost to the end FIG. 47. FOUR-CENTRED ARCH FIG. 48.
LATE FOUR-CENTRED ARCH FIG. 49. ...FOURTEENTH-CENTURY DOORWAY, WITNEY of the century. It was one of the few Gothic forms that had any attraction for Wren, who used it in his doorway to the Divinity School (Fig. 17), and in the curves of his 136 THE GRAMMAR OF ARCHITECTURE dome at Christ Church ; he seems also to have altered the arch of the great window over the gateway to make it correspond with the dome above.
Another ornamental form, in the thirteenth century, was the trefoil arch, formed from three circles having their centres at the angles of an equilateral triangle.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by E a Greening Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn to read onlineMoreLess
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