. Architecture for general students. Battlement. rich design, or, in a few instances in France, anapparent modification of the fleur-de-lis. Thiswas known as the finial. The wall itself, in the 166 earlier Gothic, was surmounted by battlements;but, at a later period, this was exchanged for a bal-ustrade of open stone work, richly ornamentedwith tracery. The spaces between the buttresseswere filled with windows, abovewhich rose pointed gables, usuallycrocketed and supporting surface of the gable was moreor less ornamented, sometimes withsuch varied and abundant trac
. Architecture for general students. Battlement. rich design, or, in a few instances in France, anapparent modification of the fleur-de-lis. Thiswas known as the finial. The wall itself, in the 166 earlier Gothic, was surmounted by battlements;but, at a later period, this was exchanged for a bal-ustrade of open stone work, richly ornamentedwith tracery. The spaces between the buttresseswere filled with windows, abovewhich rose pointed gables, usuallycrocketed and supporting surface of the gable was moreor less ornamented, sometimes withsuch varied and abundant tracery,as in St. Stephens Cathedral atVienna, that they have the ance at a little distance of being covered with rich lace-work. Gothic Facade. — In the facade the two loftytowers above the side aisles, so remarkable afeature of the Romanesque, are still retained, butflanked at either corner by strong buttresses — notonly in conformity to the general plan of the build-ing, but also for support, as the walls of the towersare perforated on all sides by large windows. Thesebuttresses usually terminate in pinnacles at abouthalf the height of the tower, and their surface, likethat of the wall-
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