An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . some recent in-stances of the revival of theDecorated style, the foliagehas been sculptured fromnature with great sculpture of the humanfigure in the early Decoratedperiod is remarkable for theease and chasteness of theattitudes, and the free andgraceful, though at the sametime rich, folds of the dra-pery. Pew figures can sur-pass in simplicity and beautythe effigy of Queen Eleanorin Westminster Abbey, andthose on the crosses erectedto her memory are almostequally fine, (seep. 141,) es-pecially those on the North-ampton cross (1
An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . some recent in-stances of the revival of theDecorated style, the foliagehas been sculptured fromnature with great sculpture of the humanfigure in the early Decoratedperiod is remarkable for theease and chasteness of theattitudes, and the free andgraceful, though at the sametime rich, folds of the dra-pery. Pew figures can sur-pass in simplicity and beautythe effigy of Queen Eleanorin Westminster Abbey, andthose on the crosses erectedto her memory are almostequally fine, (seep. 141,) es-pecially those on the North-ampton cross (130); those atWaltham have been muti-lated and restored. The Prft™ flf fkvlrliTlPtrm iPr- 130- figure of Queen Eleanor, from herClUbb <1L VjeUULiiglUU lb JJtJI- Monumental Cross at Northampton. haps the most perfect of AD1294 those which remain. This is not mentioned in the executors accounts, but probably only because that part of the accounts has been lost; it is as plainly a memorial cross to Queen Eleanor as either of the DECORATED DOORWAYS. 15S The Doorways of this style are frequently large,and very richly sculptured; but in small churches theyare as frequently plain, and have merely a dripstoneover them, the scroll-moulding often terminated by twosmall heads, which are generally a king and a bishop,as at Kislingbury, Northamptonshire (131) : this is thecase also with thewindows. It isoften not easy todistinguish theplain doorways ofthis style fromthose of the pre-ceding one, but ingeneral they arenot so deeply re-cessed, and thereis a slight differ-ence in the look,even where thereare no mouldingsto distinguishthem. A few door-ways of this styleare double, butthis is not a com- This doorway has the dripstone terminated by themOn arrangement heads of a king and a bishop, and the mouldings filled. - _T with ball-flowers and foliage. in England. When there are shafts in the jambs they are worked on thesame stone as part of the suite of mouldings, and notinserte
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