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ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES.
Hanked by small shafts, and surmounted by pinnacles and trefoil-like foliage. The
foot of the shaft, which is of the usual octagonal shape, has several ranges of
mouldings, and on each side of the niche are three small shields : the canopy
is triple-faced.
WINDOWS. It is a common error to believe that the most ancient windows
are those composed of only a single day, or light; for many without mullions may
be found as late as the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The small dimensions of
windows has also been regarded as a proof of antiquity, without considering the
respective purposes of such apertures, or the relative dimensions of the build-
ings to which they originally belonged.
In the small village churches of early Norman architecture the windows are
remarkably small, being in some instances only round holes, seldom exceeding
nine or ten inches in diameter, but splayed off internally to disperse the light.
These may be found in some few churches still remaining, particularly in Norfolk.
Plate No. 76, fig. 1, with the plan, is taken from the Church of Framlingham
Earl's, near Norwich. The walls are constructed with flints, covered with cement;
the rim of the circle is formed of bricks, taken probably from the Roman camp, at
Caister. Fig. 4 is another specimen of a round window (not exceeding ten or
eleven inches in diameter), from Hadiscoe Church, in Norfolk, better executed
than the former, having its circle composed of small pieces of stone."3
These little circular windows were superseded by small semicircular-headed,
narrow windows, or rather loopholes, which seldom exceeded eight or ten inches
wide, by three and a half, or four feet, in height. (See figs. 2, 5, and 7, being
windows from the churches of Witlingham, Glllingham, and Ingworth, in Nor-
folk.) Such was the gloominess of the ancient churches thus lighted that most
of them were altered about the time of Henry III. or Edward I. by the insertion of
larger sized windows, with lancet or trefoil heads ; the apertures being made from
eighteen inches to two feet wide, in addition to the small windows which were
still left. Subsequently, during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries,
these new windows gave place to larger openings divided by mullions. Fig. 20,
from Thurton Church, Norfolk, of the age of Edward I. or II. is given as a spe-
cimen of a window of a larger size applied to a building of the same magnitude
83 The circular windows which afforded almost all the light to small parish churches must not be
confounded with those circles which were intended principally for ornament; as in the Cathedrals of
Norwich, Ely, Peterborough, &c.
ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES.
Hanked by small shafts, and surmounted by pinnacles and trefoil-like foliage. The
foot of the shaft, which is of the usual octagonal shape, has several ranges of
mouldings, and on each side of the niche are three small shields : the canopy
is triple-faced.
WINDOWS. It is a common error to believe that the most ancient windows
are those composed of only a single day, or light; for many without mullions may
be found as late as the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The small dimensions of
windows has also been regarded as a proof of antiquity, without considering the
respective purposes of such apertures, or the relative dimensions of the build-
ings to which they originally belonged.
In the small village churches of early Norman architecture the windows are
remarkably small, being in some instances only round holes, seldom exceeding
nine or ten inches in diameter, but splayed off internally to disperse the light.
These may be found in some few churches still remaining, particularly in Norfolk.
Plate No. 76, fig. 1, with the plan, is taken from the Church of Framlingham
Earl's, near Norwich. The walls are constructed with flints, covered with cement;
the rim of the circle is formed of bricks, taken probably from the Roman camp, at
Caister. Fig. 4 is another specimen of a round window (not exceeding ten or
eleven inches in diameter), from Hadiscoe Church, in Norfolk, better executed
than the former, having its circle composed of small pieces of stone."3
These little circular windows were superseded by small semicircular-headed,
narrow windows, or rather loopholes, which seldom exceeded eight or ten inches
wide, by three and a half, or four feet, in height. (See figs. 2, 5, and 7, being
windows from the churches of Witlingham, Glllingham, and Ingworth, in Nor-
folk.) Such was the gloominess of the ancient churches thus lighted that most
of them were altered about the time of Henry III. or Edward I. by the insertion of
larger sized windows, with lancet or trefoil heads ; the apertures being made from
eighteen inches to two feet wide, in addition to the small windows which were
still left. Subsequently, during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries,
these new windows gave place to larger openings divided by mullions. Fig. 20,
from Thurton Church, Norfolk, of the age of Edward I. or II. is given as a spe-
cimen of a window of a larger size applied to a building of the same magnitude
83 The circular windows which afforded almost all the light to small parish churches must not be
confounded with those circles which were intended principally for ornament; as in the Cathedrals of
Norwich, Ely, Peterborough, &c.