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 . Stalls in Chancel, Denford, Northamptonshire, c. 1250. 138 THE EARLY ENOLISH ^YLE. with an ornamental opening between the small arches and thelarge one, like the double doors ; a straight-sided canopy issometimes used, and a plain finial. These niches, except thechancel stalls, and the stoup and water-drain, are seldom single,except in buttresses, but mostly in ranges. Early English Ornaments. The first ornament to be described is that already
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 . Stalls in Chancel, Denford, Northamptonshire, c. 1250. 138 THE EARLY ENOLISH ^YLE. with an ornamental opening between the small arches and thelarge one, like the double doors ; a straight-sided canopy issometimes used, and a plain finial. These niches, except thechancel stalls, and the stoup and water-drain, are seldom single,except in buttresses, but mostly in ranges. Early English Ornaments. The first ornament to be described is that already noticedas the peculiar distinction of this style, to which it seemsnearly, if not exclusively confined; it is the regular progres-sion from the Norman zigzag to the delicate four-leaved flowersso common in Decorated English buildings. Like the zigzag,.
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