. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . 87. Lincoln Cathedral, 1220» Base, with a double set of mouldings, shewing the deep hollow which holdswater, peculiar to this style, and a clustered pillar of round and pear-shaped shafts. later examples this hollow is not found, its place beingfilled up with another round moulding. The Pillars are of various forms—round or octa-gonal in small and plain churches, and these not un-frequently alternate; in richer work they are usuallyclustered; but the pillar most characteristic of thestyle is the one with detached shafts (88), which a
. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . 87. Lincoln Cathedral, 1220» Base, with a double set of mouldings, shewing the deep hollow which holdswater, peculiar to this style, and a clustered pillar of round and pear-shaped shafts. later examples this hollow is not found, its place beingfilled up with another round moulding. The Pillars are of various forms—round or octa-gonal in small and plain churches, and these not un-frequently alternate; in richer work they are usuallyclustered; but the pillar most characteristic of thestyle is the one with detached shafts (88), which aregenerally of Purbeck marble, frequently very long andslender, and only connected with the central shaft bythe capital and base, with or without one or two EARLY ENGLISH PILLARS. 123 bands at intervals. These bands are sometimes ringsof copper gilt, as in the choir of Worcester Cathedral,and were sometimes necessary for holding togetherthe slender shafts of Purbeck 88. Salisl)ury Cathe- 89. Westminster Abbey, , 1220—1237. Clustered pillar with ^^^^^ ix^nse^t, detached shafts. The Aeches are frequently, but not always, acutelypointed, and in the more important buildings are gene-rally richly moulded, as in Westminster Abbey (89), 124 EARLY ENGLISH WINDOWS. either with or without the tooth-ornament, as thearches at York Minster (77). It has been alreadyobserved that the form of the arch is never a safeguide to the date or style of a building—it dependedmuch more on convenience than anything else; themouldings are the most safe guide : for instance, thearches of the nave of Westminster Abbey are of thesame form as those of the choir and transepts, yetthey were built by Sir Eichard Whittington (betterknown by the story of his cat), in the fifteenth cen-tury, and their mouldings belong distinctly to thatperiod. In plain parish churches the arches are fre-quently without moulding>, merely recessed and cham-fered; the only cha
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