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 . 1 l 111 M lit 11 String-oourses, Barfreston Church, Kent. 60 THE NORMAN STYLE. Kings Munimcnta Antigua,- [and in the Glossary of Archi-tectures and a selection of them in the two preceding the zigzag ornament is much used, it is a mark thatthe building is late in the style, while the billet appears to be. 0 JEWIi Part of Eoutb Door, Iffley Clinxcli, OxfordBhire, c. 1160. one of the earliest ornaments used in the Norman style; buttbe
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 . 1 l 111 M lit 11 String-oourses, Barfreston Church, Kent. 60 THE NORMAN STYLE. Kings Munimcnta Antigua,- [and in the Glossary of Archi-tectures and a selection of them in the two preceding the zigzag ornament is much used, it is a mark thatthe building is late in the style, while the billet appears to be. 0 JEWIi Part of Eoutb Door, Iffley Clinxcli, OxfordBhire, c. 1160. one of the earliest ornaments used in the Norman style; buttbe periods at which particular ornaments were first introducedis still open to much question.] There is one moulding which deserves mention, from itsalmost constant occurrence,very nearly of the samepattern and proportions overevery part of the kingdom ;this is the moulding of thesquare abacus, over theflowered or cut part of thecapital; it consists of a broadfillet and hollow, which areseparated by a little sunk channel, and it is sometimes con-tinued as a tablet along the walls. [A plain round moulding called a bouiel is frequently usedas a horizontal string, or tablet,in the Norman stjde, and com-monly has over it a projectingpiece with the lower angle be-villed or chamfered ofl:, similarto the usual Norman abacus, asat Peterborough. PeterlwroTigh Cathedral, Transept, ). 1155. Vol. ii. plates 76—82.
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