t ang-les of earlier times. The pierced parapet and balustrade is a feature of thestyle. At Lichfield and Exeter (p.81) they protect the clerestorypassag-e,much as they do in the churches at Caen (p. 91), andare frequent along- the top of the walls. Battlements arecomparatively rare, and when they… … ^i fee PARAPET, BRAILES CHURCH,WARWICKSHIRE 278 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE The capitals are no longer surrounded with a tuft ofbuddini^^vej^etation spring-ing- upwards into life, but entwined witha wreathed festoon of twisted leaves, and, instead of the
Church architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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