This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...than any other. In windows it allows the tracery bars to rise higher, and furnishes less subordinate or supplementary spaces to be filled up, for which purpose the flowing tracery and the equilateral arch were so well adapted. In doorways the jambs can be carried much higher before the spring of the arch commences. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...than any other. In windows it allows the tracery bars to rise higher, and furnishes less subordinate or supplementary spaces to be filled up, for which purpose the flowing tracery and the equilateral arch were so well adapted. In doorways the jambs can be carried much higher before the spring of the arch commences. There must have been some such principle at work, by which window heads became quite square, and gables quite flat, and even the foliations in the heads of lights and under transoms omitted, in the latest age; in a word, some influence to depress the pyramidal into the flat, a result which is so universally and so strikingly observable in the pitch of the roofs of the respective styles. Even to the Normans the low segmental arch was not unknown, as it distinctly occurs in the chancel of S. Mary's chapel, Stourbridge. Its occurrence (principally in the interior of doorways) in the First Pointed age has already been noticed. In windows of the fourteenth century it is extremely common, and even the square head is by no means rare; all which shews that there was no more tendency in the flat arch alone to debase Gothic architecture, than there was in the pointed arch alone to develope it. Hence also the favourite octagonal form in bases, turrets, &c., because a series of oblong faces is thereby presented to the eye. It will be recollected that all towers in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries are believed to have had, or been intended.to have, spires of stone or wood. (Churches of Cambridgeshire, Part III. p. 47.) The Late, or Florid Third Pointed works are characterised by excessive ornament, as in the chapels of Bishops Alcock and West, in Ely Cathedral; or by a meagre and wiry detail, as at Bath Abbey, and the great tower at Fountains Abbey...
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