An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . 100. Lutton, Huntingdonshire, c. an arch at all, and the shouldered lintel, or the cor-belled lintel, would perhaps be more correct. The round-arched doorways may readily be distin-guished by their mouldings ; they are commonly earlyin the style, but by no means always so : segmentalarches also occur, though rarely. The larger doorwaysare generally deeply recessed and richly moulded, and 126 EARLY ENGLISH DOORWAYS. in the best examples both the arches and jambs areenriched with the tooth-ornament and foliage j the. 101. St. Cross, Ham


An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . 100. Lutton, Huntingdonshire, c. an arch at all, and the shouldered lintel, or the cor-belled lintel, would perhaps be more correct. The round-arched doorways may readily be distin-guished by their mouldings ; they are commonly earlyin the style, but by no means always so : segmentalarches also occur, though rarely. The larger doorwaysare generally deeply recessed and richly moulded, and 126 EARLY ENGLISH DOORWAYS. in the best examples both the arches and jambs areenriched with the tooth-ornament and foliage j the. 101. St. Cross, Hampshire, o. 12S0. Doorway, shewing an obtuse arch richly moulded, with a dripstone terminated bycorbels of foliage, and with the tooth-ornament; two sub-arches trefoiled, witha quatrefoil in the head. jambs have likewise shafts with sculptured are sometimes double. The west doorway of St. Cross Church, near Win-chester (101), is double, with two trefoil-headed openingsunder one obtuse arch, and a pierced quatrefoil in thehead, bearing considerable resemblance to the windowsof the Kings Hall, Winchester (90), and is probably ofthe same date. EARLY ENGLISH PORCHES. 127 The Porches are frequently shallow, but there aremany fine porches of the usual projection; these havesometimes very lofty gables, as at Barnack, North -


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