Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford [etc.] Parker and Co. · leaf 140
eitherEarly English or Decorated. Some of the capitals aremolded only, without foliage, and some of these havethe abacus octagonal, which is more usual in Frenchthan in English work. Some have proposed to divide the Decorated styleinto two—the geometrical and the flowing; but herethe distinction is… … 130 CHANGE FROM EARLY ENGLISH TO DECORATED. and run into each other so continually, that it is almostimpossible to separate them in practice: the windowsmay indeed be distinguished, though even in these weoften find windows with geometrical tracery and otherswith flowing tracery in the same…
Architecture, Gothic
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