. Letters of an architect, from France, Italy, and Greece. GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. 33 four attached shafts. The third varies from this towards c, and is attimes still more complicated: d and e belong to the fourth I have thought at times that the last mode (e) was adopted fromeconomy. It is posterior in date to the other, and perhaps might be con-sidered as forming a distinct style, but it is not accompanied with such amarked difference in the other parts as to enable me to separate it. Thecathedral of St. Wulfram, at Abbeville, offers excellent examples of bothsorts of piers. The portal
. Letters of an architect, from France, Italy, and Greece. GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. 33 four attached shafts. The third varies from this towards c, and is attimes still more complicated: d and e belong to the fourth I have thought at times that the last mode (e) was adopted fromeconomy. It is posterior in date to the other, and perhaps might be con-sidered as forming a distinct style, but it is not accompanied with such amarked difference in the other parts as to enable me to separate it. Thecathedral of St. Wulfram, at Abbeville, offers excellent examples of bothsorts of piers. The portal and the five first arches of the nave in thatchurch are the commencements of a most magnificent edifice, with theearlier characters of this fourth style. The remainder is an economicalcontinuation of much inferior architecture, probably of about the year1500. In the first the piers are formed somewhat in the manner above re-presented at D, in the other they are as at e ; in both, the parts divide,and find their bases at different altitudes; and this peculiarity, and thewant of capitals, I consider as the two most distinguishing marks of thisstyle; for the idea of columns being thus lost, the capitals are almost
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