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A Saves of Jive Windows, Plate No. 73, is illustrative of so many varieties of
^0rrr>, style, and fitting up of these glazed openings. Nos. 1 and 2 are from the
s°uth side, near the east end of Canterbury Cathedral, and may be considered to
have been designed about 1184. The trefoil-headed, under a semicircular
Moulding, is a singular example. No. 3, from East Dereham Church, Norfolk,
s a common form prevailing at the commencement of the thirteenth century. No.
4> from the east end of Wellingborough Church, Northamptonshire, is a pleasing
specimen of the Catharine wheel rib, under the arch, with ramified tracery from the
bullions. The hood moulding springs from a bird and an angel, and terminates
Wi*h a rich finial.
5, from the east end of Merton College Chapel, Oxford, is a fine specimen of
the architecture of the second period of the Pointed style. According to Wood
^is chapel was dedicated in 1424. The design has been ascribed by some to
^dliam Rede, Bishop of Chichester ; but as that prelate died in 1385, others
have with more probability supposed that Thomas Rodeburn, an ecclesiastic,
who was employed on other buildings of the college, was the architect of this chapel.
Plate No. 74 exhibits twelve specimens of ornamental architecture in Span-
iels and Pannels. The fancy displayed by the Christian architects of former
*lInes in embellishing the spandrels of their arches, and covering the facings of altar
tombs, chantry chapels, &c. serve to prove that they were unrestrained by rules
and scholastic dogmas, and that they were constantly seeking for novelty and
Variety. Almost every geometrical form and figure was employed, and repre-
ssed by rib tracery, and made to frame and adorn the blazonings of heraldry,
^he specimens before us tend to exemplify this remark. Fig. 1, 2, and 6 are
spandrels from a screen in the church of Aylsham, Norfolk, an edifice said to have
een erected by John of Gaunt; but the screen appears to have been executed
Partly at the expense of Thomas Wymer, a manufacturer of Aylsham, who died in
^08. Fig. 5 is a spandrel from the church of Salle, in Norfolk, built in the
tnended by Mr. Holdsworth and the late Mr. James Wyatt. Recently they have thought it advisable to
make other alterations and additions to the college; and several architects, &c. were consulted. An
*Cc°unt of the different designs, with much historical and descriptive matter relating- to these buildings,
^as published (anonymously) in a volume, 8vo. 1823, entitled, " Observations on the original Architec-
gu ^ Mary Magdalen College, Oxford; and on the Innovations anciently and recently attempted."
j ,° ^'scussions, when conducted in good temper, and arising from pure motives, must do much good,
nadvertently omitted to notice this volume in a review of publications on the subject.
213
A Saves of Jive Windows, Plate No. 73, is illustrative of so many varieties of
^0rrr>, style, and fitting up of these glazed openings. Nos. 1 and 2 are from the
s°uth side, near the east end of Canterbury Cathedral, and may be considered to
have been designed about 1184. The trefoil-headed, under a semicircular
Moulding, is a singular example. No. 3, from East Dereham Church, Norfolk,
s a common form prevailing at the commencement of the thirteenth century. No.
4> from the east end of Wellingborough Church, Northamptonshire, is a pleasing
specimen of the Catharine wheel rib, under the arch, with ramified tracery from the
bullions. The hood moulding springs from a bird and an angel, and terminates
Wi*h a rich finial.
5, from the east end of Merton College Chapel, Oxford, is a fine specimen of
the architecture of the second period of the Pointed style. According to Wood
^is chapel was dedicated in 1424. The design has been ascribed by some to
^dliam Rede, Bishop of Chichester ; but as that prelate died in 1385, others
have with more probability supposed that Thomas Rodeburn, an ecclesiastic,
who was employed on other buildings of the college, was the architect of this chapel.
Plate No. 74 exhibits twelve specimens of ornamental architecture in Span-
iels and Pannels. The fancy displayed by the Christian architects of former
*lInes in embellishing the spandrels of their arches, and covering the facings of altar
tombs, chantry chapels, &c. serve to prove that they were unrestrained by rules
and scholastic dogmas, and that they were constantly seeking for novelty and
Variety. Almost every geometrical form and figure was employed, and repre-
ssed by rib tracery, and made to frame and adorn the blazonings of heraldry,
^he specimens before us tend to exemplify this remark. Fig. 1, 2, and 6 are
spandrels from a screen in the church of Aylsham, Norfolk, an edifice said to have
een erected by John of Gaunt; but the screen appears to have been executed
Partly at the expense of Thomas Wymer, a manufacturer of Aylsham, who died in
^08. Fig. 5 is a spandrel from the church of Salle, in Norfolk, built in the
tnended by Mr. Holdsworth and the late Mr. James Wyatt. Recently they have thought it advisable to
make other alterations and additions to the college; and several architects, &c. were consulted. An
*Cc°unt of the different designs, with much historical and descriptive matter relating- to these buildings,
^as published (anonymously) in a volume, 8vo. 1823, entitled, " Observations on the original Architec-
gu ^ Mary Magdalen College, Oxford; and on the Innovations anciently and recently attempted."
j ,° ^'scussions, when conducted in good temper, and arising from pure motives, must do much good,
nadvertently omitted to notice this volume in a review of publications on the subject.