Exterior Compartment.
The Buttresses have frequently set-offs, and canopies attached to their faces, carrying often a series of Crockets: these in the earlier examples are plain, stiff, and curled; but the later ones are formed by a gracefully disposed leaf. Towards the end of the Period, the buttresses became very bulky and massive, and carried little or no ornaments.
The Pinnacles have often the same ornament, and are crowned with finials composed of a bunch of foliage.
The Cornice often carries a large ornamental leaf in its hollow, and the projecting Corbel-table is no longer seen.
The earlier Windows exhibit tracery which consists almost exclusively of plain foliated circles; but in the later examples other simple geometrical forms were employed. The heads of the window lights, occasionally plain, were more frequently, even in the earlier examples, and invariably in the later ones, cusped or foliated.
The Clere-story usually contains a single window, or at most a pair, containing tracery similar to that of the side-aisle windows, and the Clere-story arcade altogether disappears.
The Cornice is usually similar to that of the side-aisles.
Interior Compartment.
The Piers have occasionally, in the earlier examples, detached shafts; but they more usually consist of a solid mass of engaged shafts, separated by hollow mouldings, and disposed on the plan of a spherical triangle.