An analysis of Gothic architecture Illustrated by a series of upwards of seven hundred examples of doorways, windows, mouldings, roofs, arches, crosses, panels, buttresses, seats, screens, etc., and accompanied with remarks on the several details of an ecclesiastical edifice . example of shafted jambs; and other specimens are figuredin Section I. Norman, Plates 1, 4, 6. These jamb shafts occurin a great variety of forms; most frequently, indeed, they arecircular, yet occasionally their form is octagonal, or twisted, as at Section I. Norman,Plate 4, or slightly pointed; this last-named variety
An analysis of Gothic architecture Illustrated by a series of upwards of seven hundred examples of doorways, windows, mouldings, roofs, arches, crosses, panels, buttresses, seats, screens, etc., and accompanied with remarks on the several details of an ecclesiastical edifice . example of shafted jambs; and other specimens are figuredin Section I. Norman, Plates 1, 4, 6. These jamb shafts occurin a great variety of forms; most frequently, indeed, they arecircular, yet occasionally their form is octagonal, or twisted, as at Section I. Norman,Plate 4, or slightly pointed; this last-named variety is restricted to late specimens, asin the Chancel arch at Codford St Marys (Section I. Semi-Norman, Plate .>); andagain, at Weald in Essex, in the S. doorway, another curious form of jamb shaft is * The moldings of the Anglo-Norman style being in so many Edifices associated with their Gothicsuccessors, it has been considered expedient here to give a place for the consideration of these latest develop-ments of Romanes(jue work, in connection with Gothic moldings. t It will be borne in mind that the jambs of Norman windows differ but very slightlv, if at all, fromthose of the doorways; in fact, in most cases they are precisely identical, except in use and position. G.
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