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PRACTICE OF
ARCIIITECTUIIE. Bl III,
and
shallow
ornainoiital work in the
arcb.ivolts and soffits. &jme of the early mouldings
ami onianu'nts are illustrated in yfu. 1 88 ,
in Book I.
'
The invention of the jioiited b.iltel,
contemporaneously with the pointed arch, opened
tlie way to a great number of new forms, all more or less referable to this common origin,
in varvinji tlie
meml)ers of com- t^
AllCU FLAXES.
plex earhi
EiKjlish groupmgs. Tlie
first and
by far the most important
of these is the roll andJiUtt,
as A in
fi;,s.
1065. and 1066. It is the
keynote of almct all the subse-
qu'.nt
formations.
The charac-
teristics of the
mouldings of this
style may be d fined to be. deep
tu'id-.Tcut
hollows
between promi-
nent
meuib Ts,
whic-h
comjjrise a
great var ety of
pointed and fil-
leted boltel's,
clustered,
isolated,
and repeated at
certain
inter-
vals, a great depth or
extent of
moulded
surfaces, and
the gene-
ral arrangement
in rectangu-
lar faces.
The
hollows,
giv-
ing the ert'ect of a
series of
detached arches
or ribs, rising
in succession,
are
s'.-ldom
true
circles (A,
fig.
1067-);
and.
like the
projecting i)arts,
they
assume a
great
nuiril)er of ca-
pricious forms.
They are not
always
arranged
in exact
jilaiics ; tlie student
must be
fully
prep:ired to find great
irregularity in tlds respect.
"
Early
English
moidiiings
may be said to
ccmiprise the
following
members :
I. The
plain boltel or edge roll
;
I I.
The pointed boltel ;
III. The
roll and Hllet ;
IV. The
scroll moulding (rare) ;
and
V. Angular forms,
consist-
ingof chamfered ridges and
intervening projections of
irregul:ir chnracter. The
other forms cliieflv fonsist
of capricious modifications
of the roll and Hllet. The
mil and trifile fillet (of which
B,
//y;
1067., is a modifi-
cation), is much used in
the more advanced build-
'..^
ings of the style, and was
the favourite form during
the reigns of Edwards I.
nnd
'
I Som times only
one side hasa fillet attached,
as at C, and others. Three
pointed rolls, placed to-
gether somewhat in the
fjg, j,
shape of a fleur-de-lis, form
a combination of very frequent occurrence (as
figs.
1097. and 1
104.),
with many minor
varieties of shape. The fillet is almost always a narrow edge line. The irregular shajie
and the freely undulating curve of the roll and fillet moulding has been conmioiily rre-
ferred. Almost every com eivable tnodification of the phAn roll, peaked, dejnessrd, elliptical,
grooved at the end, tln\:ated, isolati d, and combined, might be found and catalogued liy a
careful observer. The scroll moulding, also called t'd(;e moulding or ressntit lori/mcr, as O
'u\Ji(j. lOb'2. and D in the above figures, was used in advanced early English work
;
it is
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