in a visible manner by the flying buttress from the wallpiers over aisle and chapel to the great outer buttress, whichin turn is loaded to security by the lofty mass of the pinnacle.He thinks that this brilliantly conceived framework of pier andvault, of buttress and pinnacle, contained the most… … French and English Churches 59 In by far the larger part of the English churches the detail onenow sees is late and of the perpendicular period. Though theEarly English and decorated periods had national peculiarities,they were cousins of similar work across the Channel. But Per-pendicular Gothic…
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