Perpendicular style
A distinctive English style within Gothic Architecture, contemporary to the French Flamboyant during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, yet having little else in common.
Perpendicular style - the name given to late 15th century English Gothic architecture as lines became longer and carving more elaborate. Also know as Flamboyant style.
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English Gothic architectural style between 1340 - 1530. Characterised by the upright tracery panels.
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Perpendicular Style
Spurning the flamboyant style altogether, the English builders devised their own late Gothic architecture, the Perpendicular style.
BOWTELL: a slender round moulding, treated as a shaft with a base and capital, characteristic of the Perpendicular style. BOX PEW: a pew enclosed by a high back and ends, the ends having doors. BRACE: any timber reinforcing an angle.
FAN VAULT, in architecture, a method of vaulting used in the Perpendicular style, of which the earliest example is found in the cloisters of Gloucester cathedral, built towards the close of the 14th century.
It followed the Perpendicular style and, although superseded by Elizabethan architecture in domestic building of any pretensions to fashion, the Tudor style still retained its hold on English taste, ...
A style of architecture which flourished in Western Europe between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries. In England it included Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles.
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buttress linked to a church wall by an arch or part of an arch that serves to transmit the outward thrust of the wall to the buttress, thus relieving strain on the walls. Allows churches to be built very tall in the Gothic and Perpendicular styles.
to see today include King's College Chapel, Cambridge, (1446-1515), Henry VII's chapel at Westminster Abbey (1503-19), and Bath Abbey (1501-39). The naves of Canterbury Cathedral and Winchester Cathedral were also rebuilt in the Perpendicular style ...
 See also: Perpendicular, Architecture, Gothic, Gothic arch, Vault
  
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