. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. mouldings; other-wise the jambs and arch stones are merely returnedsquare. The tower of Sompting Church possessesearly carved work, and boltels at the angles of thewindow openings, and also a very peculiar orna-mented stringcourse. The chancel arch at Witter-ing Church, Northamptonshire, is amorg the earlyattempts at moulding observed in this country,being rough and chiselled members, gene-rally seml-cylindrie-al. A square-edged reveal soo
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. mouldings; other-wise the jambs and arch stones are merely returnedsquare. The tower of Sompting Church possessesearly carved work, and boltels at the angles of thewindow openings, and also a very peculiar orna-mented stringcourse. The chancel arch at Witter-ing Church, Northamptonshire, is amorg the earlyattempts at moulding observed in this country,being rough and chiselled members, gene-rally seml-cylindrie-al. A square-edged reveal a boltel, by first chamfering, and then re-moving indefinitely tlie angles. Thus, a S(]uare-cd^edarch with its sub-arch orsofHt rib, was eitherworked into rounds at each angle or into jjointedrolls; or some edge,^ were chamfered,others workedinto rolls, am) tlie sub-arch cut away into a broadsemi-cylindrical rib. • The i\orinan architects never got much l)e-yond the plain semi-cylindrical roll (fig. 1064. r?-1064. nut show even so much work). They j^aid more attention to surface sculpture ARCII ILANES. 972 PRACTICE OF ARCIIITECTUIIE. Bl III, and shallow ornainoiital work in the and soffits. &jme of the early mouldings ami onianunts are illustrated in yfu. 1 88 , in Book I. • The invention of the jioiited , contemporaneously with the pointed arch, opened tlie way to a great number of new forms, all more or less referable to this common origin, in varvinji tlie meml)ers of com- t^ AllCU FLAXES. plex earhi EiKjlish groupmgs. Tliefirst and by far the most importantof these is the roll and JiUtt, as A infi;,s. 1065. and 1066. It is thekeynote of almct all the formations. The charac-teristics of the mouldings of thisstyle may be d fined to be. hollows between promi-nent meuib Ts, whic-h comjjrise agreat var ety of pointed and fil-leted boltels, clustered, isolated,and repeated at certain inter-vals
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