Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 85
ond pointed in detail. The spirit of Perpendicular was antagonistic to plain surfaces. It particularly dis-liked the spandrils left bythe pointed arch when it cutthrough a wall, and got ridof them partly by flattening. the arch and so diminishingtheir extent, partly by fillingthem with elaborate… … FIG. IIO.—DIVINITY SCHOOL, OXFORD. 60 PERPENDICULAR GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE stone lace, which make up what is known as fan vaulting. Andhere it may incidentally be remarked that the attitude of the
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