. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ken for the basis of the arrangement of mould-ings. Among the characteristics of the tertiary French style, or the Flamboyiint, which hagbeen described and illustrated in/jars. 546, et seq., is tliat called by Professor Willis, in amost ingenious and valuable paper, read in 1840 before the Institute of British Architects,venetration or inlerpenetration of the different mouldings and parts. The French anti-quaries have called the system in quest
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ken for the basis of the arrangement of mould-ings. Among the characteristics of the tertiary French style, or the Flamboyiint, which hagbeen described and illustrated in/jars. 546, et seq., is tliat called by Professor Willis, in amost ingenious and valuable paper, read in 1840 before the Institute of British Architects,venetration or inlerpenetration of the different mouldings and parts. The French anti-quaries have called the system in question mouhires jirism<iti(ities. Neither of these termsseem satisfactory, but of the two we are inclined to prefer the first as most significant. Ipthe paper above mentioned, he observes that the practice is very rarely to be seen inEnglish buildings, but produces an instance of it in the turrets of Kings College chapel,at Cambridge {fiy. 1069.), where the cornice A of the pedestal seems to pierce the plinthsof the angle buttresses, and appears at B. This is, how-ever, by no means a capri-cious, but rather an indis-pensable arrangement, by.
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