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 . Little Addington, Nortiamptonslure, c. Aynbo, NortliamptonsMre, c. 1350. DECORATED ENGLISH WINDOWS. 181 with tracery, &c., and is generally crocketed, [as at IsTorwicli,p. 178]. Another sort of canopy is an arch running over thedoorway, and unconnected with it, which is doubly foliated;it has a good effect, but is not common. On the side ofthe doorways small buttresses or niches are sometimes placed,[as at Christ Church, York, and at Ho
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 . Little Addington, Nortiamptonslure, c. Aynbo, NortliamptonsMre, c. 1350. DECORATED ENGLISH WINDOWS. 181 with tracery, &c., and is generally crocketed, [as at IsTorwicli,p. 178]. Another sort of canopy is an arch running over thedoorway, and unconnected with it, which is doubly foliated;it has a good effect, but is not common. On the side ofthe doorways small buttresses or niches are sometimes placed,[as at Christ Church, York, and at Hovvden (see Plate)]. In small churches there are often nearly plain doorways,having only a dripstone and a round moulding on the interioredge, and the rest of the wall a straight line or bold hollow,and in some instances a straight sloping side only. In somedoorways of this style a series of niches with statues are carriedup like a hollow moulding; and in others, doubly foliatedtracery, hanging free from one of the outer mouldings, givesa richness superior to any other decoration. The south door-way of the choir at Lincoln is perhaps hardly anywhereequalled of the first kind, and a doorwa
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