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 . ular crocketed set-offs. The first of these DECORATED ENGLISH BUTTRESSES. 201 stages contains a series of statuary niclies, the rest are onlypanelled. This buttress finishes under the cornice with an or-namented panel and crocketed head; the projection of thelower part of this buttress is very great, and gives to thewhole great boldness as well as richness. The second is a ruin—the east end of Howden Church, Yorkshire ; it has also someniches,
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 . ular crocketed set-offs. The first of these DECORATED ENGLISH BUTTRESSES. 201 stages contains a series of statuary niclies, the rest are onlypanelled. This buttress finishes under the cornice with an or-namented panel and crocketed head; the projection of thelower part of this buttress is very great, and gives to thewhole great boldness as well as richness. The second is a ruin—the east end of Howden Church, Yorkshire ; it has also someniches, but not so many as that at York. The third is alsoa ruin—the east end of the priory at Walsingham, in Norfolk ;this is very late, and perhaps may be considered as almost aPerpendicular work, but it has so much of the rich magnificenceof the Decorated style, that from its great plain spaces it de-serves noticing as such; it is, in fact, a flat buttress set upagainst one face of an octagonal turret, and terminates in a finetriangular head richly crocketed. The buttresses of the aislesof the nave of York Minster are small compared with those at.
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