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Perpendicular Period

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Perpendicular Period c.1350-c.1550
Pombaline style 1755 earthquake-c.1860 Portugal
Postmodern architecture 1980s
Prairie Style 1900-1917 USA
Pueblo style 1898-1990s
Queen Anne Style architecture 1870-1910s UK & USA ...

 


(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) denoting a style of architecture of the late perpendicular period and characterized by half-timbered houses
[from the Tudor royal house of England, ruling from 1485 to 1603] ...

of medieval fortifications, but more strictly applied to the round hole or circle with which the openings terminate. The same term is applied to the small circles inserted in the tracery-head of the windows of the Decorated and Perpendicular periods, ...

other designs - so that the light is seen through. Panelled parapets are those ornamented by a series of panels, either oblong or square, and more or less enriched, but are not perforated. These are common in the Decorated and Perpendicular periods.

See also: Perpendicular, Decorated, Roman, Ornament, Church

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