An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders . EARLY ENGLISH TABLETS. 133 Early English Tablets. The cornice is sometimes ricli in mouldings, and often withan upper slope, making the face of the parapet perpen- ^r _ _ dicular to the wall below, -,. ( ; \- --_^-—>-^^^—^ There are cornices of this ^^^^^^—^- — ^ style still resembling the -~J ^^^^^^mm^^mimif^ Norman projecting parapet, i M ^^^^^^SJZ^i^^l ral mouldings. The hollow y \>^ J^Jlh^^^^C!^^*^ moulding of the cornice is , - _ZZ_
An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders . EARLY ENGLISH TABLETS. 133 Early English Tablets. The cornice is sometimes ricli in mouldings, and often withan upper slope, making the face of the parapet perpen- ^r _ _ dicular to the wall below, -,. ( ; \- --_^-—>-^^^—^ There are cornices of this ^^^^^^—^- — ^ style still resembling the -~J ^^^^^^mm^^mimif^ Norman projecting parapet, i M ^^^^^^SJZ^i^^l ral mouldings. The hollow y \>^ J^Jlh^^^^C!^^*^ moulding of the cornice is , - _ZZ___^ -^^^^j ^. generally plain, seldom con- iwiiii«wNtiwjimiiiiiifijiiMiiiiwffi^^ taining flowers or carvings, i ,- • except the toothed ornament, „ ? ^ ^ , „ , , , ,, IT Cornice, York, 1250. but under the mouidmgs there is often a series of small arches resembling the Corbel-taWe on Tower, Stanwick, Hortliamptonsliire, c. 1220. The dripstone of this style is various, sometimes of severalmouldings, sometimes only a round with » a small hollow. It is, in the interior,occasionally ornamented with the toothedornament, and with flowers. In somebuildings, the dripstone is returned, andruns as a tablet along the walls. Itis in general narrow, and supportedby a corbel, either of a head or aflower; [or a clump of characteristic fo-liage, as at Swaton, Lincolnshire, or it is sometimes merely curled round with-in f inv r«nrhpl 1 Dripstone Termination, Swaton,out any Lincolnshire.
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