. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . 112. LiEcoln Cathedral, c. , north aisle of nave. ISO EARLT ENGLISH BUTTRESSES. first sometimes square, as at Bishops Cleeve, Glou-cestershire (64),which is of tran-sitional Normancharacter: they arenot very numerousin the Early Eng-lish style, and oftenconsist merely ofan octagonal shaftwith a pyramidalcapping; after-wards, particularlyin large buildings,they are eitherround or octagonal,with shafts at the^^^^^^^^^^^ angles, sometimes 113. Beaulieu, HampsMre, supporting smallc. 1260. ^ arches, and termi- 114^ Peterborough
. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . 112. LiEcoln Cathedral, c. , north aisle of nave. ISO EARLT ENGLISH BUTTRESSES. first sometimes square, as at Bishops Cleeve, Glou-cestershire (64),which is of tran-sitional Normancharacter: they arenot very numerousin the Early Eng-lish style, and oftenconsist merely ofan octagonal shaftwith a pyramidalcapping; after-wards, particularlyin large buildings,they are eitherround or octagonal,with shafts at the^^^^^^^^^^^ angles, sometimes 113. Beaulieu, HampsMre, supporting smallc. 1260. ^ arches, and termi- 114^ Peterborough nating in a plain conical capping end-^^^^^^^^^-^^^^ ing in a bunch of foliage or other ornament as a finial, as at Peterborough (114).. The Flyikg Etjttress now becomes a prominentfeature in large buildings. It is often found in l^or-man work, but concealed under the roof of the tri-forium, as at Durham, Winchester, and many otherfine Norman buildings; but in this style it is carriedup higher, and is altogether external, spanning overthe roof of the aisle, and carrying the weight andconsequent thrust of the vault over the central space EARLY ENGLISH BUTTRESSES, 151 obliquely down to the external buttresses, and so tothe ground, as at Hartlepool, Durham (115). Thereis a very fine example of a com-pound flying buttress at West-minster Abbey, which supportsthe vaults of the choir, the tri-forium, and the aisles, and car-ries the thrust of the wholeover the cloister to the they did not become com-mon until after this is a marked differencebetween the flying buttressesof English buildings and thoseof Prench work of the sametime; the English are far moreelegant : large Erench build-ings often appenr
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