This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...loses the tendency which every other form of Gothic had to increase the height of the building by high peaked roofs, which specially characterises the contemporary styles in France, where the roofs (as we have seen) became steeper than ever. The roofs are flattened to a lower pitch than that of a Greek temple; among ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...loses the tendency which every other form of Gothic had to increase the height of the building by high peaked roofs, which specially characterises the contemporary styles in France, where the roofs (as we have seen) became steeper than ever. The roofs are flattened to a lower pitch than that of a Greek temple; among the lines of the tracery straight horizontal bars are introduced, the horizontality of which is strengthened by treating them as cornices with miniature battlements (fig. 43, p. 152). The pointed windows in a tier one above the other, in each bay, no longer lead the eye upward; but, square in form, they are massed close together in long horizontal lines of light. The belfries cease to be drawn up into spires, and become square towers, finished at the top with a level cornice and parapet. In domestic architecture the sweet low level lines of the Tudor house, in which the roof is often so low as to be concealed by the parapet, are in direct contrast to the tall peaked roofs of the French chateau of the same period, which still inherited the Gothic principle of height. In Morton Hall (fig. 47), the low-pitched roofs and long ranges of low lights exhibit this tendency. If the name of the style is to be descriptive of its character, it should be called the Horizontal variety of Gothic, instead of ' Perpendicular.' By its common sense and severity it saved English Gothic from the looseness and degradation in striving after newsensations into which Gothic fell in other countries. It has been the fashion to abuse our English Perpendicular churches, and much beautiful work in the style has in the last few years been destroyed, though it had three centuries of antiquity to boast of, because the clergyman or architect disliked it, and preferred a modern im...
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