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       PREFACE.

       CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS.

       INTRODUCTION.

       CHAPTER I.

       CHAPTER II.

       CHAPTER III.

       CHAPTER IV.

       CHAPTER V.

       CHAPTER VI.

       CHAPTER VII.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       CHAPTER IX.

       CONCLUDING CHAPTER.

PREFACE.

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      In revising this Work for a Fourth Edition several alterations have been made, especially in the Concluding Chapter; and the whole has been considerably enlarged.

      M. H. B.

      Rugby,

       April 1841.

       CHAP. I.

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      Definition of Gothic Architecture; its Origin, and Division of it into Styles 17

       CHAP. II.

      Of the different Kinds of Arches 22

       CHAP. III.

      Of the Anglo-Saxon Style 30

       CHAP. IV.

      Of the Norman or Anglo-Norman Style 51

       CHAP. V.

      Of the Semi-Norman Style 74

       CHAP. VI.

      Of the Early English Style 86

       CHAP. VII.

      Of the Decorated English Style 102

       CHAP. VIII.

      Of the Florid or Perpendicular English Style 120

       CHAP. IX.

      Of the Debased English Style 145

       CONCLUDING CHAPTER.

      Of the Internal Arrangement and Decorations of a Church 153

CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS.

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      Page 41, line 9, for Cambridge, read Lincoln.

      Page 49. In addition to the list of churches containing presumed vestiges of Anglo-Saxon architecture, Woodstone Church, Huntingdonshire, and Miserden Church, Gloucestershire, may be enumerated.

      Page 71. The double ogee moulding is here inserted by mistake: it is not Norman, but of the fifteenth century.

      Page 137. In some copies the wood-cut in this page has been reversed in its position.

INTRODUCTION.

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      ON THE ORIGIN, PROGRESS, AND DECLINE OF GOTHIC OR ENGLISH ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE.

      Amongst the vestiges of antiquity which abound in this country, are the visible memorials of those nations which have succeeded one another in the occupancy of this island. To the age of our Celtic ancestors, the earliest possessors of its soil, is ascribed the erection of those altars and temples of all but primeval antiquity, the Cromlechs and Stone Circles which lie scattered over the land; and these are conceived to have been derived from the Phœnicians, whose merchants first introduced amongst the aboriginal Britons the arts of incipient civilization. Of these most ancient relics the prototypes appear, as described in Holy Writ, in the pillar raised at Bethel by Jacob, in the altars erected by the Patriarchs, and in the circles of stone set up by Moses at the foot of Mount Sinai, and by Joshua at Gilgal. Many of these structures, perhaps from their very rudeness, have survived the vicissitudes of time, whilst there scarce remains a vestige of the temples erected in this island by the