[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Air of monotony and weakness. Fur
Koo
spewer at georezo.net
Wed Jan 6 14:04:42 UTC 2010
E last storey consists of plain panelling ornamented at intervals by
gables. The west windows of the aisle are shorter than the other aisle
windows, but have tracery of the same character. The aisle doorways are
plain, but over both are some sculptured figures. Those over the north
door appear to represent a hunt. In the middle a woman is setting a dog
on to two beasts, and behind them there is a man blowing a horn. At the
sides are two quatrefoils, set in which are figures (1) of a man
attacking another man drinking, and (2) one man driving another away.
The sculpture over the south door was destroyed in the fire of 1840, but
a careful restoration of it has been made. It consists of a man in the
middle fighting with a dragon, with sword and shield, and at the sides
in the quatrefoils (1) Delilah cutting the hair of Samson, and Samson
and the lion; (2) a man and woman fighting. The ends of the aisles are
also ornamented with arcading in three storeys, the lowest of which is
like the lowest storey of the arcading at the west end of the nave; the
second a smaller series of niches ornamented with gables and pinnacles;
and the t
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: basing.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 20143 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-utopia-maintainers/attachments/20100106/848a5b01/attachment-0001.jpg>
More information about the Pkg-utopia-maintainers
mailing list