The reasons which have caused the adoption of the terms made use of in the following system, are fully given in their proper place, and it only remains for the Author to notice that the terms "Curvilinear" and "Rectilinear" were first proposed by a writer in the "British Critic," some years ago, as a substitute for Mr. Rickman's terms "Decorated" and "Perpendicular;" and in a sense, therefore, as regards the former of these terms, essentially different from that in which it is here proposed to be applied. The rest must be more or less familiar to all who have been of late engaged in the study.
The Author desires to take this opportunity of acknowledging his obligations to Mr. T. Austin, by whom all the subjects, with one exception, have been measured and drawn from the buildings themselves; as well as to Mr. G. B. Smith, by whom the whole have been engraved on steel, for the accuracy and appearance of the principal illustrations.
FOOTNOTES:
[A] The preceding paragraphs, distinguished by inverted commas, formed part of the introduction to a Paper "On the Geometrical Period of English Church Architecture," read by the Author at the Lincoln meeting of the Archæological Institute in July 1848.
[B] "Treatise on the Rise and Progress of Window Tracery," by E. Sharpe, M.A. Van Voorst, London.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| CHAPTER I. | ||
| Introduction | [1] | |
| CHAPTER II. | ||
| Classification | [3] | |
| CHAPTER III. | ||
| Compartments | [13] | |
| CHAPTER IV. | ||
| Saxon Period | [15] | |
| CHAPTER V. | ||
| Norman Period | [17] | |
| CHAPTER VI. | ||
| Transitional Period | [21] | |
| CHAPTER VII. | ||
| Lancet Period | [25] | |
| CHAPTER VIII. | ||
| Geometrical Period | [29] | |
| CHAPTER IX. | ||
| Curvilinear Period | [33] | |
| CHAPTER X. | ||
| Rectilinear Period | [37] | |