. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . 78. Haseley, Oxfordshire, c. 1220. Suite of Mouldings, shewing rounds and hollows, the pear-shaped mould-ing and the use of the tooth-ornament in a hollow moulding. light and shade (78). In many of the earlier examplesthe square profile of the recessed IsTorman arch is re-tained, and the mouldings are cut chiefly on the angles,as in the nave of Milton Church, Oxfordshire (79); butas the style advances this squareness is lost, and themouldings appear to be cut on a chamfer, or sloping EARLI ENGLISH MOVLDINGS,. surface, and none of the plai


. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . 78. Haseley, Oxfordshire, c. 1220. Suite of Mouldings, shewing rounds and hollows, the pear-shaped mould-ing and the use of the tooth-ornament in a hollow moulding. light and shade (78). In many of the earlier examplesthe square profile of the recessed IsTorman arch is re-tained, and the mouldings are cut chiefly on the angles,as in the nave of Milton Church, Oxfordshire (79); butas the style advances this squareness is lost, and themouldings appear to be cut on a chamfer, or sloping EARLI ENGLISH MOVLDINGS,. surface, and none of the plain square masonry remains,the whole beingworked up into rich isuites of mouldings,separated only bydeep hollows. Inthe later examplesa peculiar mouldingcalled the rolPmoulding (80), isused; and it wasstill more used inthe succeeding, orDecorated style, andis often consideredone of the marks ofthat style. The fil-let was now usedprofusely on therounds; one, two,or sometimes threefillets being cut ona single moulding,as in the choir ofthe Temple Church, 80. Temple CMrch, London, 1240. London fSl) thus shewing the pear-shaped moulding, and an^ ^ early variety of the roll-moulding, with giying a very differ- <^^ep hollows between. ent though still beautiful character to them; but this always shews a tendency to transition to the next style. 79. Ifave of Milton Church,


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