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Images and short extracts from Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church, by F[rank] E. Howard (?—1934). The book contains over 170 photographs. Since the author died more than 70 years ago, the text is out of copyright. Photographs taken in the UK by British citizens living in England before 1945 are generally also out of copyright; in addition, many of the photographers are explicitly listed (including the author) and died more than 70 years ago. All the pictures from this book that are on the Web here are out of copyright.
The book was published posthumously with a preface by E.<A.<Greening Lamborn, who edited the manuscript for publication.
Title: Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church
Published by: B. T. Batsford Ltd.
City: London
Date: 1936
Total items: 6
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![[picture: 114. Village Churches of the Decorated Period: Whissendine, Rutland.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howard-MediaevalEnglishChurches/wm/big/114-Whissendine-Church-Rutland-q75-146x200.jpg "[picture: 114. Village Churches of the Decorated Period: Whissendine, Rutland.]")
114. Village Churches of the Decorated Period: Whissendine, Rutland.
St. Andrew’s Church, Whissendine, Rutland; It dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, and has a 100-foot tall tower.
[$]![[picture: 46. The South Nave Arcade, Melbourne, Derbyshire, with stilted Norman arcade.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howard-MediaevalEnglishChurches/wm/big/046-melbourne-derbyshire-q85-146x200.jpg "[picture: 46. The South Nave Arcade, Melbourne, Derbyshire, with stilted Norman arcade.]")
46. The South Nave Arcade, Melbourne, Derbyshire, with stilted Norman arcade.
Like the pre-Conquest builders [i.e. before 1066], the Normans knew only one form of arch, th semicicular, with its variants, the segmental (used when the height was limited) and the stilted (46) or horseshoe (which was employed when a taller arch was required). They occasionally employed a lintel over small openings, usually with a relieving arch [...]
![[picture: 43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [interior view]]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howard-MediaevalEnglishChurches/wm/big/044-cliffe-church-kent-interior-q85-267x200.jpg "[picture: 43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [interior view]]")
43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [interior view]
Clerestories.—Those Norman churches which were built with aisles seem all to have had clerestories. I do not know of a Norman nave with original aisles without [...] Norman nave clerestories remain at
![[picture: 43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [exterior view]]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howard-MediaevalEnglishChurches/wm/big/043-cliffe-church-kent-q82-267x200.jpg "[picture: 43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [exterior view]]")
43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [exterior view]
The treatment of the eaves illustrates a very characteristic, though by no means invariable Norman feature, namely, the corbel table, a series of prjecting stones at intervals, carrying a continuous course of long flat stones, forming a fine cornice and giving the eaves greater projection (38. 43, 45). The corbels are generally carved into grotesques [...] [more...]
Images and short extracts from Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church, by F[rank] E. Howard (?—1934). The book contains over 170 photographs. Since the author died more than 70 years ago, the text is out of copyright. Photographs taken in the UK by British citizens living in England before 1945 are generally also out of copyright; in addition, many of the photographers are explicitly listed (including the author) and died more than 70 years ago. All the pictures from this book that are on the Web here are out of copyright.
The book was published posthumously with a preface by E.<A.<Greening Lamborn, who edited the manuscript for publication.
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