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8 REV. T. WAETON's
singularissima opera: turricularum appara-
tum, &c." Yet even here, there is nothing
of that minute finishing which afterwards
appeared; there is still a massiness, though
great intricacy and variety. About the same
time the collegiate church of Fotheringay,
in Northamptonshire, was designed: and we
learn from the orders h of Henry VI. delivered
to the architect, how much their notions in
architecture were improved. The orna-
mental Gothic at length received its con-
firmation about 1441, in the chapel of the
same King's college at Cambridgel. Here
strength united with ornament, or substance
with elegance, seems to have ceased. After-
wards, what I would call the florid Gothic
arose, the first considerable appearance of
which was in the chapel of St. George, at
Windsor, begun by Edward IV. about 1480 ;
and which, lastly, was completed in the su-
perb chapel of Henry VII. at Westminster.
The florid Gothic distinguishes itself by
an exuberance of decoration, by roofs where
the most delicate fretwork is expressed in
stone, and by a certain lightness of finishing,
* In Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. iii. p. 169.
'' It was not finished till some years after; but a descrip-
tion and plan of the intended fabric may be seen in the &®%s
Will. Stowe's Annals, by Howes, 1614, p. 479, seq-
* Ashmolc's Order of the Garter, sect. ii. chap. 4. p-lj '
singularissima opera: turricularum appara-
tum, &c." Yet even here, there is nothing
of that minute finishing which afterwards
appeared; there is still a massiness, though
great intricacy and variety. About the same
time the collegiate church of Fotheringay,
in Northamptonshire, was designed: and we
learn from the orders h of Henry VI. delivered
to the architect, how much their notions in
architecture were improved. The orna-
mental Gothic at length received its con-
firmation about 1441, in the chapel of the
same King's college at Cambridgel. Here
strength united with ornament, or substance
with elegance, seems to have ceased. After-
wards, what I would call the florid Gothic
arose, the first considerable appearance of
which was in the chapel of St. George, at
Windsor, begun by Edward IV. about 1480 ;
and which, lastly, was completed in the su-
perb chapel of Henry VII. at Westminster.
The florid Gothic distinguishes itself by
an exuberance of decoration, by roofs where
the most delicate fretwork is expressed in
stone, and by a certain lightness of finishing,
* In Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. iii. p. 169.
'' It was not finished till some years after; but a descrip-
tion and plan of the intended fabric may be seen in the &®%s
Will. Stowe's Annals, by Howes, 1614, p. 479, seq-
* Ashmolc's Order of the Garter, sect. ii. chap. 4. p-lj '