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rUACTICE Ol' ARCHITECTURE. Book III.

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centre opcnint;;,
tlic arch of wliicli is shown at N. The corresponding positions on plan
are exliibitud m
Jig.
1137. The section O, represents
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the face of the buttress P
,
wliile the plan
Q is that
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of tliu arch mouldings at 11.
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11:58. is a section of the screen on the south
side of tlie cliancel at Lavenhain Churcii, Suffolk,
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wlicrein the details N, O, and P, are those belonging
to tlie buttress
Q,
which even in late niediasval car-
pentry was not omitted, though somewhat out of
accordance with the "true principles" attributed to
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design in that style.
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Fig. 11.S9, being the capital and base mouldings
from the screen in Aldeniiam Church, Hertfordshire,
are of the perpendicular period. These examples are
all further illustrated in Bury's work ahove-men-
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tioned, as well as
Jic/s. 1140, to 1144., showing the
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general style of
mouldings adopted
for seats and bench
ends, as noticed in
jar. 2192/;. Fiij.
1140. is the rail of d-^
the bench
; Jig.
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1141. the division
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under the seat ; and S
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1142. the sec- I
tion of the arm of
the stall and of
a bench end, all
at Bridgenorth
Church, Somerset-
shire. Fiy 1143. is the arm of the stalls at 'Wan-
tage Church, Berkshire; iind
Jig.
1144. the rail
and stall mouldings at Swinbrook Church, Oxford-
shire. The ends of the stall even in Henry Vll.'s
chapel are worked out of only 3-inch planks, and
formed into three attached shafts, similar to
Jig.
1143.
(),hcr notices of the thickness of stnlV are given in }iui: 2175(1.
Having given illustrations of the i)rinciplcs of constructing
timber roofs during the
medieval period, we now append some of tiieir details,
wl.ich, on comjarison with the
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Fig. 1138. I.AVENHAM, SUFFOLK.
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Fig. 1141. Fig. 1142. Fig. 11-13
SECTIOXS OF MOULDINGS TO EENCULS.
Fig 11 11.
figures just given, will tend to show the mode in which the rougher and larger timbers
were oriuunenteil, especially those co much further Irom the sight than screens and other
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Fig. 1145.
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Fig. 1116.
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Tig. 1118