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4 days ago · Under an arch in Duloe church, richly ornamented with vine leaves and grapes, is an altar-tomb, enriched with shields and quatrefoils; having at the west end a bas-relief of the crucifixion: on this tomb lies the effigies of a knight, carved in stone, in plate armour, with a collar of S. S. Round the verge of a large slab of Purbeck marble, on ...
2 days ago · Overall, plate armour offered better protection against piercing weapons such as arrows and especially bolts than mail armour did. [52]: 15–17 Plate armor reached his peak in the 15th and 16th centuries, but was still used at the beginning of the 17th century by the first Cuirassiers like the London lobsters.
2 days ago · The comb, gorget, and gauntlet are all found on a suit of plate armour. After the introduction of plate armour, knights continued to wear a coif because it helped serve as a buffer between the knight's body and the plate armour.
2 days ago · Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. [1] It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture.
3 days ago · Fittings—Armour: Formerly on bracket above monument (2), now in library, bascinet with vizor of bellows form (Plate 40), probably for use in foot combat, c. 1510 (Arch. J., XXXIX (1882), 184–5). In N. chapel, above monument (4), combed close-helmet, late 16th-century, with added wooden cap-of-maintenance.
2 days ago · Rivenhall Hall (Plate, p. xxxi), 300 yards N. of the church, was built early in the 16th century with cross-wings at the E. and W. ends. There is a large 17th-century addition on the N. side.
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4 days ago · The Gothic architecture of France was transformed into a characteristically English style by the delicate use of stone to provide a framework for walls that were almost all glass, culminating in triumphs of the Perpendicular style, such as King’s College Chapel at Cambridge.
