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 . Over, Cambridgesliire, c. 1300. Beaulieu, Hampsliire, c. 1300. Oxfordshire, p. 201], and with all the various degrees of orna-ment. The corner buttresses of this style are often set dia-gonally. In some few instances small turrets are used as but-tresses. The buttresses are variously finished; some slopeunder the cornice [as at Beaulieu, Hampshire], some justthrough it; some run up through the battlement, [as at Brid-lington, Yorkshire]; and [
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 . Over, Cambridgesliire, c. 1300. Beaulieu, Hampsliire, c. 1300. Oxfordshire, p. 201], and with all the various degrees of orna-ment. The corner buttresses of this style are often set dia-gonally. In some few instances small turrets are used as but-tresses. The buttresses are variously finished; some slopeunder the cornice [as at Beaulieu, Hampshire], some justthrough it; some run up through the battlement, [as at Brid-lington, Yorkshire]; and [others] are finished with pinnaclesof various kinds. Of rich buttresses there are tbree examples which deservegreat attention; the first is in the west front of York Minster,and may be considered in itself as a magazine of the style;its lower part, to which it ascends without set-off, consists offour series of niches and panelling of most delicate execution ;above this part it rises as a buttress to the tower, in four stagesof panels, with triangular crocketed set-offs. The first of these DECORATED ENGLISH BUTTRESSES. 201 stages contains a series
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