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  • James Paine and Robert Adam: Kedleston Hall
    Western architecture
    / Early Gothic

    …elevation together by series of colonettes, or small columns, set vertically in clusters. Again, as at Laon, much of the elaborate figured carving of Romanesque buildings was abandoned in favour of a highly simplified version of the Classical Corinthian capital—usually called a “crocket” capital. Under the influence of Chartres Cathedral,…

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    …elevation together by series of colonettes, or small columns, set vertically in clusters. Again, as at Laon, much of the elaborate figured carving of Romanesque buildings was abandoned in favour of a highly simplified version of the Classical Corinthian capital—usually called a “crocket” capital. Under the influence of Chartres Cathedral,…

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