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 . cA-i-^^ Irthlingteough, Northamptonsliire, c. 1350. Great Addington, Ifortliamptoiisliire, c 1350. 192 THE DECORATED ENGLISH STYLE. [Thename of Sound-holes is not very ap-plicable, as they aremore strictly aii-holes; they are notused in the bell-chamber, but in theringing-loft, to giveair to the belonging tothis style are gene-rally smaller than inthe next. They aresometimes diamondshaped, but more fre-quently square. Triangular
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 . cA-i-^^ Irthlingteough, Northamptonsliire, c. 1350. Great Addington, Ifortliamptoiisliire, c 1350. 192 THE DECORATED ENGLISH STYLE. [Thename of Sound-holes is not very ap-plicable, as they aremore strictly aii-holes; they are notused in the bell-chamber, but in theringing-loft, to giveair to the belonging tothis style are gene-rally smaller than inthe next. They aresometimes diamondshaped, but more fre-quently square. Triangular win-dows are likewise fre-quently used in thepoints of gables overlarge windows. Some-times the commonstraight-sided tri-angle, more often thespherical triangle, asat Alberbury, Shrop-shire, and the MaisonDieu at Dover. Inthe later examplesthese openings arefilled with bar-tra-cery, the same as inwindows of otherforms and sizes. A tendency to theFlamboyant style oftracery is frequentlyobservable in the tra-cery of Decorated win-dows, in the later pe-riod of the style, asin Bolton Abbey, andat Beverley Minster,Irthlingborough, andEling, (p. 186).. Alterbury, Sliropsliire, c. 1300.
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