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DIFFERENT
DENOMINATIONS
OF THE THIRD DIVISION.
143
Bore advanced period than those of Chichester, and the tower from which it rises
m°st judiciously contrived, from its sculptured richness and elaboration of pin-
ocles, to give increased interest to the general effect. The three spires of Lich-
called the three sisters, are peculiar in England, although there are similar
exaniples in Normandy. Seen from the west, they form a beautiful group, and in
^ery approacu to the city naturally attract the eye, and interest the imagination.
16 spire of Norwich Cathedral was the earliest of the four, and is also the
ainest: this is supposed to have been erected by Bishop Walpole, about the end
of Edward the First's reign.47
Third Division of the Pointed Style.
Having arrived at a period when a more complete alteration both in the general
tures and in the ornamental forms of the Pointed style took place than had dis-
guished the Second Division, it becomes essential to describe the architectural
^eculiarities of the most important of those buildings in which this change is
ecidedly obvious, and likewise to examine into the propriety of attaching a
^tiq^tiyg appellation to edifices of this class, or division. Commencing with the
j^gn of Richard the Second, the Third Period will extend to the early times of
etlry the Eighth, and thus include the space of about one hundred and forty
^ars>—after which, with perhaps the solitary exception of Bath Abbey Church,
the excellence and congruities of the Pointed order were superseded by the
arbarous forms and mongrelisms of a debased Italian or Roman style.
There have been several appellations bestowed upon this Third and last class of
^0lnted architecture, viz. the highly-decorated, or florid Gothic ; the obtuse, or
^P^essed-arched order ; the Tudor style ; and the Perpendicular style ; yet of all
°Se names there is not one by which the characteristics of the period in question
re fully appropriately described. This remark, however, is not made in any
lePrehensive point of view, but only to show the difficulty of generalization on a
Suk)ect where the principles and practice of the art admitted of an almost infinite
Variety in the minor arrangements and details. The terms decorated and florid,
by n *e subsequent chapter the subject of towers and spires will be resumed, and especially illustrated
engraved representations.
DENOMINATIONS
OF THE THIRD DIVISION.
143
Bore advanced period than those of Chichester, and the tower from which it rises
m°st judiciously contrived, from its sculptured richness and elaboration of pin-
ocles, to give increased interest to the general effect. The three spires of Lich-
called the three sisters, are peculiar in England, although there are similar
exaniples in Normandy. Seen from the west, they form a beautiful group, and in
^ery approacu to the city naturally attract the eye, and interest the imagination.
16 spire of Norwich Cathedral was the earliest of the four, and is also the
ainest: this is supposed to have been erected by Bishop Walpole, about the end
of Edward the First's reign.47
Third Division of the Pointed Style.
Having arrived at a period when a more complete alteration both in the general
tures and in the ornamental forms of the Pointed style took place than had dis-
guished the Second Division, it becomes essential to describe the architectural
^eculiarities of the most important of those buildings in which this change is
ecidedly obvious, and likewise to examine into the propriety of attaching a
^tiq^tiyg appellation to edifices of this class, or division. Commencing with the
j^gn of Richard the Second, the Third Period will extend to the early times of
etlry the Eighth, and thus include the space of about one hundred and forty
^ars>—after which, with perhaps the solitary exception of Bath Abbey Church,
the excellence and congruities of the Pointed order were superseded by the
arbarous forms and mongrelisms of a debased Italian or Roman style.
There have been several appellations bestowed upon this Third and last class of
^0lnted architecture, viz. the highly-decorated, or florid Gothic ; the obtuse, or
^P^essed-arched order ; the Tudor style ; and the Perpendicular style ; yet of all
°Se names there is not one by which the characteristics of the period in question
re fully appropriately described. This remark, however, is not made in any
lePrehensive point of view, but only to show the difficulty of generalization on a
Suk)ect where the principles and practice of the art admitted of an almost infinite
Variety in the minor arrangements and details. The terms decorated and florid,
by n *e subsequent chapter the subject of towers and spires will be resumed, and especially illustrated
engraved representations.