. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . -are still clustered inoutline, but the ex-quisite lightness ofsuch piers as we seeat Salisbury is tin- other hand, intill- matter of vault-ing, though theysometimes seem tohave had spasms oftunidity, the Deco-rated architects madea considerable ad-vance. In buikhngthe chapter-house atYork they got rid of the central pillar, and at Ely they invented a mode of coveringthe intersection of nave and tra
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . -are still clustered inoutline, but the ex-quisite lightness ofsuch piers as we seeat Salisbury is tin- other hand, intill- matter of vault-ing, though theysometimes seem tohave had spasms oftunidity, the Deco-rated architects madea considerable ad-vance. In buikhngthe chapter-house atYork they got rid of the central pillar, and at Ely they invented a mode of coveringthe intersection of nave and transept which gave them a centralspace of the noblest pioportions and umivulled in elegance of. THE JESSE WINDOW, DURCIIESTEB, CIllJRCII, OXON. 70 THE noNsoLrDATrny of the [i274 desiini. The octagon at Ely, Imilt liy Alan of \\alsiiv_;liani inthe last years of Edward II., is unniatehod hy any similarconstrnction in England. It covers the entire width of naveand transept, and the fluted fans which lead up to the lanternare of surpassing beauty. This feature of largeness conies outagain in the nave of York. Like the lantern at Ely, therocif is (if wiiiid, but the effect is none the less York, and still more at Lichfield, we note the tendencyof the Decorated architect to enlarge the clerestory at theexpense of the trifiriuiu ; but wliere, as in the choir bays atEly (built by the same Alan of Walsingliam), the old EarlyEnglish proportions are preserved, the absolute high-watermark of elegance in proportion, combined with richness ofdetail, may be said to have been ^\hat may, perhaps, be best termed sepuli-hral art attained its zenith during t
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