10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLUSHWORK»
Discover the use of
flushwork in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
flushwork and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Flint
Flushwork: A Medieval Masonry Art
A thorough survey of Flint Flushwork decoration, one of the finest artistic forms of the medieval craftsman.
Buttresses with flushwork chequering, the base with flushwork blank arches. A
frieze of heads and fleurons below the parapet. The E end of the chancel again
has flushwork-panelled buttresses, and in addition a tall frieze of flushwork ...
Nikolaus Pevsner, Enid Radcliffe, 1974
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Norfolk 1: Norwich and North East
Big w tower with flushwork chequer on the base. Traceried sound- holes.
Flushwork panelling on the battlements. Doorway with three orders of double
wave mouldings. Two-storeyed N porch with big flushwork panelling and
entrance arch ...
Nikolaus Pevsner, Bill Wilson, 2002
The authors have surveyed 92 examples of flushwork in the two counties. A
significant key to their understanding has been Peter Northeast's detailed
analysis of the wills of benefactors. For example, the content of a single will goes
far in ...
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Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire: The Archaeology and ...
13 The 4 In which case, the appearance of a single panel of flushwork low down
in the northwest buttress, and the very narrow strip of flushwork incorporated in
the tower plinth near the north east corner, are unexplained. 5 Unfortunately ...
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Medieval Church Window Tracery in England
... a pair of individual two-light windows with pointed cinquefoiled lights and a
quatrefoil in their apices, but with no Perpendicular features; between them a
wide central mullion faced with flushwork panelling fans out in the window apex.
Throughout the county of Suffolk there must be other examples beyond number
of satisfying and appropriate flushwork mixed with brick or freestone; as at
Blythburgh, on the sea-coast with a clerestory of eighteen windows divided by
flint ...
Sacheverell Sitwell, 1969
And then there are the flushwork derivatives; brick flushwork, proudwork, where
the flint is recessed, and relief flushwork, where the flint in the panels is
unknapped and the surface therefore uneven. It is hardly surprising that the
Victorians ...
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The Buildings of England: North east Norfolk and Norwich
blank windows done in flushwork, must be as early and may be earlier. But it has
no known date. Similar blank windows occur in the gatehouse of Butley Priory in
Suffolk which can be dated to c.1320. The earliest datable example in Norfolk is ...
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The Buildings of England: North west and south Norfolk
blank windows done in flushwork, must be as early and may be earlier. But it has
no known date. Similar blank windows occur in the gatehouse of Butley Priory in
Suffolk which can be dated to c.1320. The earliest datable example in Norfolk is ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLUSHWORK»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
flushwork is used in the context of the following news items.
Colchester: Filming starts on documentary about Blessed John Beche
The gatehouse, with its flushwork lilies, a symbol of the Virgin Mary, is currently being renovated after recent vandalism and will be used for ... «Independent Catholic News, May 15»
Michael Palin: my seven of the best
Indeed, Nicholas Pevsner, who wasn't one to scatter praise, called St Edmund's, Southwold, "the epitome of Suffolk flushwork". The church is ... «Church Times, May 15»
Why Suffolk is forever England
... of the church porch about 560 years ago in a technique known as flint flushwork. .... The gable-end of the transept features flint flushwork. «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
The strange round towers of East Anglia
I'd written about him before, in 2008, when his book Flint Flushwork came out. Flint and round towers go together, and both go with East Anglia. «Telegraph.co.uk, Dec 14»
Norfolk Walk: Long Stratton, Tharston and Tasburgh
The tower, east and west sides feature flint flushwork. Inside the church are a number of fine 17th century monuments and a 15th century font ... «Norwich Evening News, Mar 13»
