iS: GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE For g-eneral character it is worth while to compare Ciren-cester (nave 1515-1530, p. 146), St. Michaels Coventry (nave1432-1450), or St. ^lary Redcliffe (re-modelled 1442, p. 143)with Abbeville (1480-1539, p. 111). Some of the English speci-mens are of earlier date, but… … ville mouldings become more and more prismatic and wire-drawn, the whole building more of a lifeless skeleton inits angularity. For angularity is the characteristic of thelater Flamboyant—gaunt, diamond-shaped piers, angularmouldings, bony buttresses made of squares rising fromwithin each other,…
Church architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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