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Main features:
•Pointed arches
•Quadripartite vaults
•Lancet windows (untraceried)
•Clustered shafts of tall, narrow piers
•It emphasized simple, almost austere lines, preferring
fine proportion to elaborate decoration.
•Cosmetic rather than structural with application of veneers
on walls
•Importance given to decoration and ornamentation to
space frames
•Instead of soaring spaces and tall stained glass windows,
they had rich mouldings and encrustations of polished
shafts such as Purbeck marble
•Vaults used for grand buildings due to possibilities of
making patterns out of them
ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER
EARLY ENGLISH GOTHIC 1180 - 1275
Buttresses:
The simple buttresses of the Norman period gave way to
flying buttresses, These flying buttresses may be visible
over the aisles, but just as often were concealed in the aisle
roof.
A variation on the Early English buttress is the "Oxford
buttress", set diagonally at corners.
Main features:
•Elaborately curved tracery
•Wider windows, better lighting
•Richly-coloured stained glass
•Increased use of bricks
•Naturalistic, curved carvings
•Pointed arches
Secular architecture: The Decorated period had little influence on castle architecture. Many earlier
castles were enlarged, with the addition of curtain walls, crenellations, and elaborate barbicans and
gatehouses. The keep ceased to be a major living-space, and was given over to use as a
storehouse and prison.
Eg: Lichfield Cathedral
Exeter Cathedral
EXETER CATHEDRAL
LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL
TIERCERON