Westminster abbey, its architecture, history and monuments . nteresting large Perpen-dicular window over the west door glazedwith highly coloured Flemish lofty height of the vault and theheight and slenderness of the long rangeof shafts surrounding the large columns,suggest the Perpendicular Gothic style, asalso the high, light, almost meagre basesof the columns in the western bays. Butthe eye at once detects the presence of anenriched, fully developed triforium and alofty clerestory which would never be seenin conjunction in a fifteenth century know that the entire church,
Westminster abbey, its architecture, history and monuments . nteresting large Perpen-dicular window over the west door glazedwith highly coloured Flemish lofty height of the vault and theheight and slenderness of the long rangeof shafts surrounding the large columns,suggest the Perpendicular Gothic style, asalso the high, light, almost meagre basesof the columns in the western bays. Butthe eye at once detects the presence of anenriched, fully developed triforium and alofty clerestory which would never be seenin conjunction in a fifteenth century know that the entire church, exceptHenry VIFs chapel, is of the Early Eng-lish Gothic style, with French suggestions:but all this western portion of the nave,built in the fourteenth and fifteenth cen-turies, and not quite complete till the six-teenth, yet was constructed in a reverentimitation of the Early English work whichHenry III inaugurated and which was car-ried on by those who followed him, a rareexample of Early English architecturebeing imitated in the Decorated and Per- 650. TuE Nave looking East The Nave pendlcular periods. And to ones fancy,these far western bays have a forced andalmost unfriendly aspect, as if they hadbeen diverted from their natural mannerand imposed upon by a design for whichthey had no feeling of kinship. The bases in the eastern bays are ofpurely Early English design, having adouble plinth, rather high for the date,and the typical hollow moulding called thewater mould. In the western bays, how-ever, the plinth is much higher and themouldings are no longer hollow but havethe drooping effect, almost overhangingthe plinth, as in the fourteenth century,when, if late observations are correct* allthe main arcade of the nave was con-structed: and in general they are moreslender and delicate in appearance thanthose of the earlier century. Pass fromone bay to another studying the bases onlyand note the difference. The piers themselves are an Interestingstudy. They are of hard Purb
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