. Architecture for general students. circular, and pointed arch were first, the latter was purely ornamental, but itsoon found its way to the arcade and vaulting; thequadratic arrangement disappeared ; cross springerswere thrown from pillar to pillar ; and numerousslender arches roofed the nave. Then these werefinished with mouldings ; cross - ribs edged thevaultings, columns and half-columns of delicate pro-portions clustered around the pillars, and the in-dented arch, the horseshoe arch, and the trefoil,crept in by way of ornament. The simple grandeur Romanesque Architecture. 1
. Architecture for general students. circular, and pointed arch were first, the latter was purely ornamental, but itsoon found its way to the arcade and vaulting; thequadratic arrangement disappeared ; cross springerswere thrown from pillar to pillar ; and numerousslender arches roofed the nave. Then these werefinished with mouldings ; cross - ribs edged thevaultings, columns and half-columns of delicate pro-portions clustered around the pillars, and the in-dented arch, the horseshoe arch, and the trefoil,crept in by way of ornament. The simple grandeur Romanesque Architecture. 155 of the Romanesque had disappeared before the long-ing for ornament and embellishment, and thence-forth, the Transition Style held sway until it wasdisplaced by the Gothic. The date of the Tran-sition cannot be exactly fixed, but it may be con-sidered as bearing sway from 1170 to 1270. Itspeculiar features were such innovations as we havenumbered, combined with more slender and delicateproportions and great exuberance of
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