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did the Early Eng

evailed generally throughout

shed from the Norman a

ed arch, with plain chamfered edges or mouldings of a different character. The segmental arch, nearly flat, was still ho

nds were the pointe

equilateral, and th

ese arches wer

ncipally used; but in small country churches the obtuse-angled arch is most frequently found. All these arches are struck from two centres, and are formed from segments of a circle. In large buildings the arc

ce of the piers between

ender detached shafts, all uniting together under one capital; these shafts were divided into parts by horizontal bands or fillets;

he capitals

y elegant and beautiful capital is frequently formed of stiffly sculptured foliage. The capital surmounting the multangular-shaped pier is also multangular in form, but plain, with

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orways of this st

orways with two or more detached shafts at the sides, and architrave mouldings composed of numerous members. Large doorways of the Early English style were sometimes double, being divided into two arched openings by a shaft, either single or clustered; and above this a quatrefoil was generally inse

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of windows we

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a window divided into three lights, the middle one higher than the others, and comprised under one hood moulding, was in use; windows of four and even five lancet lights, thus disposed, are to be met with, but are not common; the sides of the windows were in general simply splayed, without mouldings, and increased in width inwardly, but slender shafts were sometimes annexed; and we also find, in the interior of rich buildings of this style, detached shafts standing out in front of the stonework forming the window jambs, and supporting the arch of the win

indow, St. Gi

ttress of this a

s chamfered; and plain buttresses in stages finished with simple slopes are not uncommon. We very rarely find buttresses of this style disposed at the angles of buildings, though such disposition was common in the succeeding style; but two buttresses pla

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walls differ

earlier period, which occasioned the wa

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pool,

fs of a different constructio

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still remaining on the side of the tower or steeple. The interior vaulting of stone roofs was composed of fewer parts and ribs, which were often not more numerous than those of Norman vaulting, and does not present that complexity of arrangement which occurs in the vaulting-ribs of subsequent styles. In the cathedral of Salisbury also in the n

spire introduce

ch was destroyed by fire, A. D. 1561. The spire of Oxford Cathedral is also of this style. Early English spires are generally wh

the spire ta

ch, at first a conical capping, afterwards became polygonal, and

peculiar, or nearl

century; and an early instance where it occurs is on a late Norman doorway, at Whitwell Church, Rutlandshire: we do not, however, meet with it in buildings of a later style than that of the thirteenth century. It is sometimes found used in great profusion in doorways, windows, and other ornamental d

ed of the sculptured

he sculptured foliage of this style to be stiff and formal compared with that of the succeeding style, when the arrange

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he parapets

l table, as in the tower of Haddenham Church, Buckinghamshire, and on that of Brize Norton Church, Oxfordshire

of the thirteenth century, in comparing it with th

Salisbury

r. These, in small buildings, are generally plain; but in large buildings they exhibit numerous mouldings, combined with a certain degree of decorative embellishment. This style is, however

tures may be noticed as

ced in 1245, exhibit this style in a more advanced stage; whilst Lincoln Cathedral is, for the most part, a rich specimen of this style in its late or transition state. The west front of Wells Cathedral, erected by the munificence of Bishop Joc

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he thirteenth century, in which more detail can be dispensed with than in any other style. Hence it follows that the just proportions and adaptation of the different parts and t

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