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RM2DHXFNK–Raglan Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales: Stringcourses of Entrance to Staircase, unknown artist, (B Green), Studio of Augustus Charles Pugin, 1762–1832, French, formerly Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812–1852, British, 1831, Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 10 1/8 x 15 3/8 inches (25.7 x 39.1 cm), architectural subject, castle, Gothic (Medieval), plans (drawings), sections, Monmouthshire, Raglan Castle
RM2E428WB–unknown artist, (B Green), Raglan Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales: Stringcourses of Entrance to Staircase, 1831. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper. architectural subject , castle , Gothic (Medieval) , plans (drawings) , sections. Monmouthshire , Raglan Castle
RM2AKTBEK–Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . e lowerstorey, while the upper, which is a triforium or gallery,has a ramping vault that gives effectual abutment to thevault of the central nave. In the narthex the pointedarch makes its appearance in the constructive features forthe first time. All the nave arches are round. The nave and aisles are in a sombre round-archedstyle ; and the stringcourses and labels are heavy, anddecorated with rosettes, a favourite Burgundian ornament.The piers are compound, with attached shafts; and thearches, as well as the transverse ribs of the vault arebuilt with alt
RMDER828–Looking up at the churchyard steps and wall, and the C15th Cornish, Perpendicular Gothic, granite ashlar tower of St Senara's Church, Zennor.
RM2AFXP1P–. The Archaeological journal. s are double, and thestages are usually very distinctly separated by stringcourses of pronounced character, and are sometimes evenmore clearly marked by bands of decorative panelling. The buttresses, set on in pairs a little way from theangles, are generally of bold projection. The parapets are mostly pierced in geometrical patternsand embattled, and are ornamented with central as wellas corner pinnacles, the latter being usually large andclustered. In the richest examples niche-work andpinnacle-work are abundant; the carved and mouldedstone-work is generally of d
RM2AFKMKC–. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. Fio. 6.—Linlithgow Cliurch. Porch. IN CHURCHES 39 INTRODUCTION derived partly from the Ecclesiastical and partly from the Domesticstyles (Fig. 7). Some of the examples to be subsequently adduced, such as the westfront and tower of the Greyfriars at Stirling, the towers of Pittenweemand Anstruther in Fifeshire, Fenwick in Ayrshire, and others in differentparts of the country, show the spirit of the Scottish style in the free useof corbelling, zigzag stringcourses, turrets, &c. In the case of Dys
RM2ANDM62–The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . antity. There is a raison detre for stringcourses other than to mark the posi-tion of a floor on the interior of abuilding, and for quoins and pilastersother than to indicate the presenceof a transverse wall. These some-times serve the useful purpose of sosubdividing a fagade that the eyeestimates the number of its openingswithout conscious effort and consequent fatigue (Illustration 83). Thetracery of Gothic rose-windows forms perhaps the highest and finest archi-tectural expression of number (Illustration 84), Just as thir
RM2AJ4377–Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . cheson, Bart.,of (ilencairnie,Whowas one of Charles I.sSecretariesof State for Scotland. archway, ornamented,and having a pendent keystone, gives access to thepicturesque little quadrangle, three sides of whichare formed by liis house, which is all built ofpolished ashlar, with sculptured dormer windows,fine stringcourses, and other architectural details ofthe period. The heavily moulded doorway, whichmeasures only three feet by si.x, is surmounted bythe date 1633, and a huge monogram including theinitials of himself an
RM2AGAP9C–. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. roof of the church, and above, three similar stages divided by enriched stringcourses, each stage having in each face a group of three arched win-dows divided by mid-wall shafts. And at Civita Castellana is acampanile of similar character though simpler in design, attached tothe north flank of the cathedral. The cathedral of Terracina. re-built in the middle of the twelfth century, has a remarkable cam-panile, of unusual size, and with four stages surrounded by blindarcades of pointed arches. (Fig
RM2CGYY27–. The Street railway journal . e been, by commonconsent, an attempt to introduce in the eleva-tions of these buildings certain proportions,treatment of openings, ornamental stringcourses, cornices, terra-cotta work, etc., toproduce a pleasing effect without inconsist-ence. Just how inconsistent such an attemptmay be is open to opinion, and about all thatcan be said of the architecture of thesevarious power houses is that they are as theyare, and time will decide through the buildingof future plants, with these as examples, whatwill finally come to be considered good art andappropriate architec
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