. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . 81. Temple Cliurcli, London, suite of mouldings from the choir, shewing the use of fillets. of mouldings so common in English doorways andarches, are almost unknown in Erance: some thingsthey developed more rapidly than we did, but in themouldings they were behind us. Throughout the Early English period there is anornament used in the hollow mouldings which is ascharacteristic of this style as the zigzag is of theNorman; this consists of a small pyramid, more orless acute, cut into four leaves or petals meeting inthe point but
. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . 81. Temple Cliurcli, London, suite of mouldings from the choir, shewing the use of fillets. of mouldings so common in English doorways andarches, are almost unknown in Erance: some thingsthey developed more rapidly than we did, but in themouldings they were behind us. Throughout the Early English period there is anornament used in the hollow mouldings which is ascharacteristic of this style as the zigzag is of theNorman; this consists of a small pyramid, more orless acute, cut into four leaves or petals meeting inthe point but separate below. When very acute, andseen in profile, it may be imagined to have somewhatthe appearance of a row of dogs-teeth, and from this ithas been called the dog-tooth ornament, or by some EARLY ENGLISH MOULDINGS, WJ the sharks-tooth ornament, more commonly the ^^tooth-oknament/ (82). It is used with the greatest pro-. 82. York Cathedral, from the north transept, shewing the tooth-ornament. fusion on arches, between clustered shafts, on thearchitraves and jambs of doors, windows, piscinas, andindeed in every place where such ornament can beintroduced. It is very characteristic of this style, forthough in the I^orman we find an approach to it, andin the Decorated various modifications of it, still thegenuine tooth-ornament may be considered to belongexclusively to the Early English. The ornaments so well known by the name ofCrockets were first introduced in this style. The nameis taken from the shepherds crook, adopted by thebishops as emblematical of their office, and called inErench crochets. They occur at Lincoln, in St. Hughs ii8 EARLY ENGLISH CROCKETS, work, the earliest, the purest, and best example of thisstyle, and are there used in the unusual position ofa vertical line between thedetached shafts of Purbeckmarble (83). They arefound in the same positionalso in the rich an
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