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 . s during the successive periods was generallyin close accordance with that of the doorways. In the richer examples small shaftswere introduced (after the fashion of the Norman architects), which, rising up to thespringing of the window, carried one or several orders of the arch moldings. xVt alltimes these shafts were us
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 . s during the successive periods was generallyin close accordance with that of the doorways. In the richer examples small shaftswere introduced (after the fashion of the Norman architects), which, rising up to thespringing of the window, carried one or several orders of the arch moldings. xVt alltimes these shafts were used much more frequently in the interior of the window thanon the outside; a window in the south transept of Wissendine Church, Rutland, how-ever, has a magnificent arrangement of triple jamb shafts externally, resting on asteep and weathered sill. The south aisle ^of S. Martins Church, Leicester, has someexcellent examples of the use of this member internally. Other instances of jamb shafts in windows will be found in Section I. EarlyEnglish, Plate 13, where they are placed outside; and in Plates 10, 12, 15, 17, and 20,and Section I. Decorated, Plate 29, in all of which they occiu* on the inside. It must, however, be borne in mind that though most exquisite adornments,.
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