. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. from the Nor-man to first pointed architecture wascomplete, the latter was characterized byits narrow pointed or lancet windows,without any, or with only very simple,tracery. Further distinguishing featuresare high gables and roofs, and simplepinnacles and spires. In England,Salisbury Cathedral is wholly in thisstyle, so are the nave and transepts ofWestminster Abbey. Scotland has goodexamples of it in the choir of Glasgow. Decorated, Second Pointed, or MiddlePointed Sty
. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. from the Nor-man to first pointed architecture wascomplete, the latter was characterized byits narrow pointed or lancet windows,without any, or with only very simple,tracery. Further distinguishing featuresare high gables and roofs, and simplepinnacles and spires. In England,Salisbury Cathedral is wholly in thisstyle, so are the nave and transepts ofWestminster Abbey. Scotland has goodexamples of it in the choir of Glasgow. Decorated, Second Pointed, or MiddlePointed Style.—Windows are divided ARCHITECTURE 234 ARCHITECTURE into a number of lights by comparativelythin muUions, and their upper portionsare filled with beautiful tracery, whichat first was of geometrical forms, suchas combinations of circles, trefoils, andquatrefoils. A continuation of the archmoldings, instead of shafts with caps, atlength characterizes the jambs of thedoorways. This is generally consideredthe most perfect and beautiful style ofGothic architecture. As examples of itmay be mentioned the choir of Lincoln.
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