. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. , or hatched work. (7-V(/.182. ) — Indented with fissures of diHerentlengths and forms, and in diHerent directions. Thedivisions thus formed are variously slojJed off, orhollowed out towards the top. (See the two exam-ples,/)^. 18:5., from the conventual church at Ely.)Occasionally the capitals have rude imitations ofsome member of a Grecian order, as in the crypt atLastringhain in Yorkshire, where volutes are used.{Fiy. 184.) In their or
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. , or hatched work. (7-V(/.182. ) — Indented with fissures of diHerentlengths and forms, and in diHerent directions. Thedivisions thus formed are variously slojJed off, orhollowed out towards the top. (See the two exam-ples,/)^. 18:5., from the conventual church at Ely.)Occasionally the capitals have rude imitations ofsome member of a Grecian order, as in the crypt atLastringhain in Yorkshire, where volutes are used.{Fiy. 184.) In their ornaments much variety is dis-jilaved, but the oi)i)osite ones are mostly ?— Semicircular-headed, extremely narrowin jiroiJortion to their height, being sometimes notmore than six or eight inches wide to a heiglitof more than three feet, and si)layed or bevelledotr on the inside through the whole thickness ofthe wall. Walls.— Of very great thickness, andwithout any buttresses externally. Masonry of solid construction. CtiUnys tuid Roofs.— Almost always open timbering. In crypts, as at York, Winchester, and a few other.
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