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 . r ornaments. [They frequently stand up clear above the parapet, as at Whitby.] 3rd. A long slender but-tress, of narrow face and great projection in few stages, is used in some towers, but is not very com-mon. 4th. Towards the latterpart of this st^le, the but-tress in stages was used,but it is not very common,and is sufficiently distin-guished by its triangularliead, the usual finish ofthis style, which can hardlybe called a pinnacle, thoughs
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 . r ornaments. [They frequently stand up clear above the parapet, as at Whitby.] 3rd. A long slender but-tress, of narrow face and great projection in few stages, is used in some towers, but is not very com-mon. 4th. Towards the latterpart of this st^le, the but-tress in stages was used,but it is not very common,and is sufficiently distin-guished by its triangularliead, the usual finish ofthis style, which can hardlybe called a pinnacle, thoughsometimes it slopes off fromthe front to a point. Fromthe buttresses of the aislesto those of the nave, choir,&c., now began to be usedthe flying buttress, of whichSalisbury and ChichesterCathedrals present variousfine examples. [Westminster Abbeyaffords a remarkable ex-ample, with the flying archbroken into two by an in-termediate pinnacle. Thisarrangement is common inFrance, but very rare inEngland. In France it isoften carried to such anextent as to have the ap-pearance of scaflfolding in -^.^^^^stone. 1 _ -• Westminster Attey, EARLY ENGLISH TABLETS. 133 Early English Tablets. The cornice is sometimes ricli in mouldings, and often withan upper slope, making the face of the parapet perpen- ^r _ _ dicular to the wall below, -,. ( ; \- --_^-—>-^^^—^ There are cornices of this ^^^^^^—^- — ^ style still resembling the -~J ^^^^^^mm^^mimif^ Norman projecting parapet, i M ^^^^^^SJZ^i^^l ral mouldings. The hollow y \>^ J^Jlh^^^^C!^^*^ moulding of the cornice is , - _ZZ___^ -^^^^j ^. generally plain, seldom con- iwiiii«wNtiwjimiiiiiifijiiMiiiiwffi^^ taining flowers or carvings, i ,- • except the toothed ornament, „ ? ^ ^ , „ , , , ,, IT Cornice, York, 1250. but under the mouidmgs there is often a series of small arches resembling the corbel-table.
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