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 . Ensham, Oxon, c. 1230. Whitby Abl)ey, Torksliire, c. 1230. 2nd. A buttress not so broad as the flat one, but nearly ofthe same projection as breadth, and carried up, sometimeswith only one set-off, and sometimes without any, and thesehave often their edges chamfered from the window tablet. k2 132 THE KARLY ENGLISH STYLE. They sometimes have a shaft at the corner, and in large rich buildings are occasionally panelled. These buttresses have also
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 . Ensham, Oxon, c. 1230. Whitby Abl)ey, Torksliire, c. 1230. 2nd. A buttress not so broad as the flat one, but nearly ofthe same projection as breadth, and carried up, sometimeswith only one set-off, and sometimes without any, and thesehave often their edges chamfered from the window tablet. k2 132 THE KARLY ENGLISH STYLE. They sometimes have a shaft at the corner, and in large rich buildings are occasionally panelled. These buttresses have also, at times, much more projection than breadth, and are sometimes, as at Salisbury, filled with niches and other 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, th
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