| William (of Malmesbury) - 1895 - 604 páginas
...he erected extensive edifices, at vast cost, and with surpassing beauty ; the courses of stone being so correctly laid that the joint deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block. He built anew the church of Salisbury, and beautified... | |
| Philip Walsingham Sergeant - 1898 - 162 páginas
...recalls what William of Malmesbury says of the Later Norman masonry at Salisbury, when he speaks of " the courses of stone so correctly laid that the joint deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block." The juncture of the two works at Winchester can... | |
| Edward Schröder Prior - 1900 - 502 páginas
...erected extensive edifices at vast cost, and with surpassing beauty — the courses of stones being so correctly laid, that the joint deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block." — Parker, " Introduction to Gothic Architecture."... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1865 - 822 páginas
...Peter's Minster. Built by Norman architects at immense expense, " framed," as Malmesbury.records, " with courses of stone, so correctly laid that the...eye, and leads it to imagine it is all one block," the king, doubtless, looked around with pride on his votive abbey that Holy Innocents' day when the... | |
| Edith A. Browne - 1907 - 164 páginas
...he erected extensive edifices at vast cost, and with surpassing beauty, the courses of stone being so correctly laid that the joint deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block.' 94 95 HEREFORD CATHEDRAL HEREFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND... | |
| Frederick Moore Simpson - 1909 - 542 páginas
...of Malmesbury, describing the work executed between 1115 and 1139, says, "the courses of stone being so correctly laid, that the joint deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block." 2 A great improvement was evidently taking place... | |
| Ernest Henry Short - 1925 - 628 páginas
...that " he put up great buildings at vast cost and of surpassing beauty, the courses of the stone being so correctly laid that the joint deceives the eye and leads it to think that the whole wall is made of a single block.'" In the same century, chisel-carving superseded... | |
| Derek Baker - 1995 - 278 páginas
...he erected extensive edifices, at vast cost, and with surpassing beauty; the courses of stone being so correctly laid that the joint deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block. He built anew the church of Salisbury, and beautified... | |
| 1815 - 756 páginas
...erected extensive edifices, and at vast cost, and with surpassing beauty : the courses of stone being so correctly laid, that the joint deceives the eye, and leads it. to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block. He built anew the ('liurch of' Saliskury, and beautified... | |
| 1847 - 440 páginas
...he erected extensive edifices, at vast cost and with surpassing beauty ; the coarse* of stone being so correctly laid that the joint deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine that the whole is composed of a single block. He builtancw the church of Salisbury, and beautified... | |
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