The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 375
the Parthenon of Eng-lish art. * Salisbury, 1220-1258. 352 THE GOTHIC STYLE. The Decorated Style. The decorated period has been so predicatedfrom the great increase of ornamentation, which began under the second Edwardand continued through thereign of the third. In it the proportionswere less lofty… … Fig. 147.—Base decorated pier. were simpler than before. Thus Englands secondperiod was free from the motiveless unconcern ofFrench Flamboyant design, being merely a frankeffort after elegance without the errors of excess. Piers were dia-mond-shaped, withshafts attached or en-gaged{¥\g. 147);…
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