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Archaeologia cantiana . Fig. 1. NOKIH CHANCEL OF HAWKHUEST CHUKCH. 250 CHURCH OF ST. LAURENCE, HAWKHURST. The Decorated windows are the three in the northchancel aheady mentioned, and two in the southchanceh They all have segmental heads. Those inthe north chancel are of three lights, which areformed hy the method usual in the fourteenth cen-tury, of placing two ogee arches between the jambs soas to intersect one another (see Pig. 1). In this casethe apices of the ogee arches are made to fall about afoot short of the segmental heads of the , on the further production of the
Archaeologia cantiana . Fig. 1. NOKIH CHANCEL OF HAWKHUEST CHUKCH. 250 CHURCH OF ST. LAURENCE, HAWKHURST. The Decorated windows are the three in the northchancel aheady mentioned, and two in the southchanceh They all have segmental heads. Those inthe north chancel are of three lights, which areformed hy the method usual in the fourteenth cen-tury, of placing two ogee arches between the jambs soas to intersect one another (see Pig. 1). In this casethe apices of the ogee arches are made to fall about afoot short of the segmental heads of the , on the further production of the mid-lions, after intersection, shields are necessarily feature in our windows is, I believe, the tracery was designed for nine coats of arms,no contrivance could have been more simple andeffectual. The Decorated windows in the south chancel are. 3- ^vfefgyjg^:^^ Fig. 2. HAWKHUEST CBUSCH, EAST WINDOW OF SOUTH CHANCBL, CHURCH OF ST. LAURENCE, HAWKHURST. 251 of flowing, but not of the ogee Decorated style. Theyare of four lights, one looking to the east (see Fig. 2),and one to the south. That to the east is filled withstained glass (Clayton and Bell), representing eventssubsequent to the Resurrection. The glass was erectedby E. J. Jenings, Esq., of Elm Hill, Hawkhurst, as amemorial to his first wife. The great east window is a fine specimen of thetransition from the Decorated to the Perpendicularstyle of architectme. Its tracery consists of two ogeearches, each covering two lights; and, in order to in-troduce a middle and higher light, the inside mullionsof these arches are carried, one right, and one left, ina circle round the whole window top, meeting at itshead. The circle is filled with six lozenge-shaped
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