Lectures on the rise and development of medieval architecture; vol. 1

by Sir George Gilbert Scott

Among buildings transitional between Early English and Decorated, or very early Decorated, may be named as having mainly rere-arch windows, Westminster Abbey (excepting the chapter-house), Tintern Abbey, the eastern parts

Fig. 172.—Chapel of St. Etheldreda, Ely Place, Holborn. East window.

Fig. 171.—Chapel of St. Etheldreda, Ely Place, Holborn. West window.

of St. Alban’s Abbey, the beautiful Templars’ Church at Temple Balsal, the Chapel of the Palace of the Bishops of Ely in Holborn (Figs. [171], [172]), the choir of Dorchester Abbey, the Bishops’ Hall at Wells, the choir of Merton Chapel at Oxford, etc.