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ESSAY* 83
is that of old St. Paul's \ finished in the year
1222; it was, I think, of timber, covered with
lead; but not long after, they begun to build
them of stone, and to finish all their buttresses
in the same manner.
Architecture under Edward I. was so nearly
the same as in his father Henry the Third's
time, that it is no easy matter to distinguish
it. Improvements no doubt were then made,
but it is difficult to define them accurately*
The transition from one style to another is
usually effected by degrees, and therefore not
very remarkable at first, but it becomes so at
some distance of time: towards the latter part
indeed of his reign, and in that of Edward II.
we begin to discover a manifest change of the
mode as well in the vaulting and make of the
columns as the formation of the windows.
The vaulting was, I think, more decorated
than before; for now the principal ribs arising
from their impost, being spread over the inner
face of the arch, run into a kind of tracery;
or rather with transforms divided the roof
into various angular compartments, and were
usually ornamented in the angles with gilded
°rbs, carved heads or figures, and other em-
bossed work. The columns retained some-
thing of their general form already described,
_ btow's Survey of London, p. 639' edit. 1754.
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is that of old St. Paul's \ finished in the year
1222; it was, I think, of timber, covered with
lead; but not long after, they begun to build
them of stone, and to finish all their buttresses
in the same manner.
Architecture under Edward I. was so nearly
the same as in his father Henry the Third's
time, that it is no easy matter to distinguish
it. Improvements no doubt were then made,
but it is difficult to define them accurately*
The transition from one style to another is
usually effected by degrees, and therefore not
very remarkable at first, but it becomes so at
some distance of time: towards the latter part
indeed of his reign, and in that of Edward II.
we begin to discover a manifest change of the
mode as well in the vaulting and make of the
columns as the formation of the windows.
The vaulting was, I think, more decorated
than before; for now the principal ribs arising
from their impost, being spread over the inner
face of the arch, run into a kind of tracery;
or rather with transforms divided the roof
into various angular compartments, and were
usually ornamented in the angles with gilded
°rbs, carved heads or figures, and other em-
bossed work. The columns retained some-
thing of their general form already described,
_ btow's Survey of London, p. 639' edit. 1754.
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