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PRACTICE or
AUCIHTECTUKE. III.
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of this iiioiilding ns of all otliers of tlie style. Tlie most frequent decorated form is
fc/.
1116.
Tiiat siiown on
fiys.
1179. and liSl. is also very common. The scroll, with a ha!f-
\
V
^
round next below it,
////. 1115. is
very cliuracteristic. The roiu.ded
form of the ui)|)erside, or weatiier-
ing
{fig.
1118.), is peculiar to
the two lir.st styles; the angular
or cham'ered, of the last
\fig^:
1119. and 1 120.).
String courses
follow the ])rinciple of tlie abacus
of the capitals, from wl.ich indeed
they are often contiuLied along
the wall of the building.
Perpendicular strings and hood
mouldings are generally marked
ll^'. 1121IIENIIV
'^
. ^
'
vii's cHAixL. Iiy the plane slope or the ujjper sur-
face. The details of tiie jiarts
underneath are so varied as to render it impos ible
here to give any account of them. A cliaracteristic
111,1 k of the style is a small boltel in tlie lower
])art (//(/. 1121.). The wall often recedes al)o\e
the stiiiig, or even overhangs it. Fii/. 1122. is
the section of the "Angel cornice" over the
arches in Henry VII. 's chapel, as shown in the
elevation,/.'/- 1325., at D. Fi</. 1123. is the
cornice and base over it, over the panilling
above the octagon windows. The scale is the
'
F- 11'^
same as to
y?;/.
1085-
lIli.XKV Vll.'S ClliUliL.
Slid'. IX.
B.\SE COURSES OR I'l.INTUS.
Tliis term is api)lied to that series of mouldings formed at the base of a wall, which
leads the eye from the ujiriglit face gradually into the ground. The lowest course of
them is even called the
"
earth table." Tiic early examples
are very plain, consisting of one or of more chamfered set-oH's at
various heights,
a.sfi(/.
1124.
In tlie early English period, the roll moulding
was introduced at the upper edge of a deep cham-
fer, ixs
fiijs.
1125. and 1272., and with one or two
FiR. 1121.
FOUNIAl.NS AUBEY.
K-VVlL.
FiK.
1127.
UOWUliN CIIUKCH.
CUOIU.
chamfered set-ofTs. They then became very similar, as in the transepts of Beverly Min-
ster, to
fit/. 1126., of the geometric or decorated ])eriod, in which tlic tablet or slope
took a curved or ogee outline, and was generally only one in number, finished at top
by a scroll moulding, with otcusionaliy a string above it, as at Ewerby. 'I'he height of