An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . Buttress with canopies andpinnacle. 162 DECORATED / 139. Bloxham, with panelling in imitation of windows. rule, canopies are sometimes found on fonts in situa-tions where there could have been no images. The East Front of a church of this style most com-monly consists of one large window at the end of thechoir, flanked by tall buttresses, and a smaller one atthe end of each aisle; the west front usually has thesame arrangement, with the addition of a doorway, ordoorways, under the central window. The east ends ofCar
An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . Buttress with canopies andpinnacle. 162 DECORATED / 139. Bloxham, with panelling in imitation of windows. rule, canopies are sometimes found on fonts in situa-tions where there could have been no images. The East Front of a church of this style most com-monly consists of one large window at the end of thechoir, flanked by tall buttresses, and a smaller one atthe end of each aisle; the west front usually has thesame arrangement, with the addition of a doorway, ordoorways, under the central window. The east ends ofCarlisle and Selby, and the west end of Howden, areamong the finest examples. On the Continent the largerose window is almost always a principal feature ofthe west front; with us it is comparatively rare,and more often found in the transept ends than at thewest end. The south fronts of Howden and Selby are THE DECORATED STYLE. 163 also fine examples of the arrangement of the side ofa large building of this style, with large windows bothto the aisle and the clear-story, separated by buttresseswith pinnacles. T
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