An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (1881)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford and London, Parker and co · leaf 320
s or merely for ornament,as is so common in the English Perpendicular style,is very remarkable b. The mouldings of this style are a sort of caricature ofthe earlier styles,generally shallowand feeble, butoften much exag-gerated (182). The pillars aresometimes fluted,more often plainrounds, with… … 182. Villequier, Normandy, c. 1500.Flamboyant mouldings. b The only examples in France of the use of battlements as an ornament,are believed to be at Dieppe, where the style is more English than French;and at Calais, where there is a small piece of it also on a building ofEnglish character; the…
Architecture, Gothic
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