. The English house, how to judge its periods and styles. HENRY III. AND THE HOME loi work. Dog-tooth, indeed, is a double zigzagoften carved into a four-leaved flower, square inshape, and with its centre projecting in a a rule you will find it well framed in a deephollow moulding, with the flowers side by side,and the petals joined at their points, so that adecorative pattern is made by the spacesbetween them. At other times the flowersare separated ; and in rich suites of mouldingsthey are repeated several times. Of course, the transition from Norman toEarly English was not rapid or
. The English house, how to judge its periods and styles. HENRY III. AND THE HOME loi work. Dog-tooth, indeed, is a double zigzagoften carved into a four-leaved flower, square inshape, and with its centre projecting in a a rule you will find it well framed in a deephollow moulding, with the flowers side by side,and the petals joined at their points, so that adecorative pattern is made by the spacesbetween them. At other times the flowersare separated ; and in rich suites of mouldingsthey are repeated several times. Of course, the transition from Norman toEarly English was not rapid or startling. Itbegan towards the end of the twelfth century ;and by 1280, when Edward I. opened the AngelChoir at Lincoln Cathedral, this style hadbegun to complete itself in a Decorated was a natural evolution, without anyundue interference from the personal ambitionsof learned architects. There was much political turmoil at thebeginning of the thirteenth century, and thiswas more favourable to military work than toreligious and domestic
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