An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . ther works in England, but there is no evidence of thisbeing the case; while other names, as Alexander of Abingdon, theimagineur, or sculptor, William the Irishman, Richard and Rogerof Crundale, in Kent, sufficiently prove the employment of natives. As additional examples of this style may be mentioned the hall ofActon Burnel Castle, Shropshire, built by Bishop Burnell, between1274 and 1292; gate-house,and part of the cathe-dral at Norwich, re-built after the riots in1275, and re-conse-crated by Bishop Mid-dleton in 1278. Thec
An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . ther works in England, but there is no evidence of thisbeing the case; while other names, as Alexander of Abingdon, theimagineur, or sculptor, William the Irishman, Richard and Rogerof Crundale, in Kent, sufficiently prove the employment of natives. As additional examples of this style may be mentioned the hall ofActon Burnel Castle, Shropshire, built by Bishop Burnell, between1274 and 1292; gate-house,and part of the cathe-dral at Norwich, re-built after the riots in1275, and re-conse-crated by Bishop Mid-dleton in 1278. Thechapter-house of Wellswas built in the timeof Bishop William deMarchia, 1292— nave of York wascommenced in 1291,and continued until1340, the same stylebeing adhered to : thewindows have geome-trical tracery. The work of PriorHenry de Estria, atCanterbury, in 1304-5,belongs also to thisstyle. An instance ofthe use of geometricaltracery at a later period occurs at Canterbury, in St. AnselmsChapel, the contract for which ( 1336) is 115. Piddington, Oxfordshire, o. 1300. 142 DECORATED WINDOWS. Many windows of this style, especially in the time ofEdward I., have the rear arch ornamented with cusps,with a hollow space over the head of the window inthe thickness of the wall, between the rear arch andthe outer arch, as at Piddington, Oxfordshire (115).This feature wasnot continued inthe Perpendicularstyle, when the archusually has a wideand flat shallowmoulding only. Windows withflowing tracery,and those with re-ticulated, or net-like forms (116),are in general some-what later than thegeometrical pat-terns ; at least, theydo not seem to havebeen introducedsquite so early; but they are Very fre- 116. St. Mary Magdalen Church, Oxford, c. 1320. quently contempo-raneous, and bothclasses may often be found side by side in the samebuilding, evidently erected at the same time. An earlyinstance of this occurs at Stoke Golding, in Leicester-shire, built between 1275 and 12
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