Archaeologia cantiana . hmchs general form CHURCH OF ST. LAURENCE, HAWKHURST. 249 aud proportions, let me now draw attention to itsvarious constituent elements. First, the walling of the three chancels, and of theeasternmost part of the north aisle, embracing thewindow, is generally of unscapled and unsquaredstones, except in the cases of the three north chancelbuttresses, the tun-et near adjoining, and the castel-lated battlement on either side. All the rest of thewalling of the church is of stones scapled and the scapled walls have a handsome plinth—theunscapled have no plinth. A
Archaeologia cantiana . hmchs general form CHURCH OF ST. LAURENCE, HAWKHURST. 249 aud proportions, let me now draw attention to itsvarious constituent elements. First, the walling of the three chancels, and of theeasternmost part of the north aisle, embracing thewindow, is generally of unscapled and unsquaredstones, except in the cases of the three north chancelbuttresses, the tun-et near adjoining, and the castel-lated battlement on either side. All the rest of thewalling of the church is of stones scapled and the scapled walls have a handsome plinth—theunscapled have no plinth. All the windows in thescapled masonry are Perpendicular, and have drip-stones ; all the windows in the unscapled masonry areeither Decorated, or in various stages of transitionfrom Decorated to Perpendicular, with no dripstones,except in the cases of the great east window, and of astrange square-headed window in the south chapel,which is the only bit of ragstone in the church, andmay be considered altogether Fig. 1. NOKIH CHANCEL OF HAWKHUEST CHUKCH. 250 CHURCH OF ST. LAURENCE, HAWKHURST. The Decorated windows are the three in the northchancel aheady mentioned, and two in the southchanceh They all have segmental heads. Those inthe north chancel are of three lights, which areformed hy the method usual in the fourteenth cen-tury, of placing two ogee arches between the jambs soas to intersect one another (see Pig. 1). In this casethe apices of the ogee arches are made to fall about afoot short of the segmental heads of the , on the further production of the mid-lions, after intersection, shields are necessarily feature in our windows is, I believe, the tracery was designed for nine coats of arms,no contrivance could have been more simple andeffectual. The Decorated windows in the south chancel are
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