An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders . North Transept, Westminster Abbey, 1250. Aisles, York Cathedral, 1227. 124 THE EARLY ENGLISH STYLE. The arches of the gallery [the triforium, or blind-storey,]in this style are often with trefoiled heads, and the mould-. Triforium Arcade, Beverley Minster, c. 1230. ings running round the trefoil, even to the dripstone. Chesterchoir is a fine specimen ; and there are some plain archesof this description in Winchester Cathedral which a
An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders . North Transept, Westminster Abbey, 1250. Aisles, York Cathedral, 1227. 124 THE EARLY ENGLISH STYLE. The arches of the gallery [the triforium, or blind-storey,]in this style are often with trefoiled heads, and the mould-. Triforium Arcade, Beverley Minster, c. 1230. ings running round the trefoil, even to the dripstone. Chesterchoir is a fine specimen ; and there are some plain archesof this description in Winchester Cathedral which are verybeautiful. Early English Piers. Of the piers of large buildings of this style, there are twodistinguishing marks : first, the almost constant division, byone or more bands, of theshafts which compose them;and secondly, the arrangementof these shafts for the mostpart in a circle. In generalthey are few, sometimes onlyfour, sometimes eight, setround a large circular one:such are the piers of Salis-bury and of WestminsterAbbey. There are sometimesso many as nearly to hidethe centre shaft, as at Lin-coln and York; but the cir-cular arrangement is still pre-served, and there are somefew, as in the choir at Chester,which come very near the ap-pearance of Decorated piers. While the circular central pil- ^orth Transept, Westminster, is the most common, with th
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