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ESSAY. 5
round-headed window was lengthened into a
narrow oblong form, with a pointed top, in
every respect much in the shape of a lancet;
often decorated in the inside with slender pil-
lars. These windows we frequently find three
together, the centre one being higher than the
two lights on each side. This style commenced
about 1200. Another of its marks is a series
of small, low, and close arch-work, sometimes
with a pointed head,, placed on outside fronts
for a finishing, as in the west end of Lincoln
and Rochester cathedrals, and in the end of
tiie southern transept of that of Canterbury.
In this style, to mention no more, is Salisbury
cathedral. Here we find indeed the pointed
arch, and the angular though simple vaulting;
but still we have not, in such edifices of the
improved or Saxon Gothic, the ramified win-
dow, one distinguishing characteristic of the
absolute Gothic \ It is difficult to define these
gradations; but still harder to explain conjec-
tures of this kind in writing, which require
ocular demonstration and a coversation on the
spot to be clearly proved and illustrated.
The absolute Gothic, or that which is free
from all Saxon mixture, began with ramified
Windows of an enlarged dimension, divided
into several lights, and branched out at the
They then seem to have had no idea of a great east-
«"»or western window,
round-headed window was lengthened into a
narrow oblong form, with a pointed top, in
every respect much in the shape of a lancet;
often decorated in the inside with slender pil-
lars. These windows we frequently find three
together, the centre one being higher than the
two lights on each side. This style commenced
about 1200. Another of its marks is a series
of small, low, and close arch-work, sometimes
with a pointed head,, placed on outside fronts
for a finishing, as in the west end of Lincoln
and Rochester cathedrals, and in the end of
tiie southern transept of that of Canterbury.
In this style, to mention no more, is Salisbury
cathedral. Here we find indeed the pointed
arch, and the angular though simple vaulting;
but still we have not, in such edifices of the
improved or Saxon Gothic, the ramified win-
dow, one distinguishing characteristic of the
absolute Gothic \ It is difficult to define these
gradations; but still harder to explain conjec-
tures of this kind in writing, which require
ocular demonstration and a coversation on the
spot to be clearly proved and illustrated.
The absolute Gothic, or that which is free
from all Saxon mixture, began with ramified
Windows of an enlarged dimension, divided
into several lights, and branched out at the
They then seem to have had no idea of a great east-
«"»or western window,