 ... immediately support the lower pedestals, through whose mullioned spaces the play of light produces a good effect : a kind of rough groining shaft attaches the open work to the central construction. " The second tier is composed of the niches and projecting...  Proceedings of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club - Seite 76von Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club - 1865Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Bristol and West of England architectural society - 1846 - 226 Seiten
...second tier is composed of the niches and projecting canopies, under which four life-size figures will stand. The third tier has the same features for four...completing the outline suggested by the buttresses, stopping at various heights; as a piece of medieval construction, it affords a valuable lesson, worthy... | |
 | 1852 - 776 Seiten
...oí' lile size. The third tier has the like features for four sitting figures ; and the fourth is a pyramidal covering or spire, completing the outline suggested by the buttresses as they successively stop at various heights. The spire adopted by Mr. Norton in his restoration is octagonal,... | |
 | Charles Pooley - 1868 - 156 Seiten
...feature has been discarded, and the pyramidal lines made at once to spring from the upper canopies. ' The modern Cross is divided into four separate stages....lesson, worthy of careful study. The mode by which the enor-- mous weight of the canopies, &c., is conveyed laterally on to the ground, by means of flying... | |
 | 1893 - 362 Seiten
...figures of life size. The third tier has the like features for four sitting figures, and the fourth is a pyramidal covering or spire, completing the outline suggested by the buttresses as they successively stop at various heights. The spire adopted by Mr. Norton in his restoration is octagonal,... | |
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