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Perpendicular style

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Perpendicular style term given the final period of English Gothic architecture (late 14th-middle 16th cent.) because of the predominating vertical lines of its tracery and paneling. It is also called rectilinear for the prevailing angularity of the designs. The work produced after 1485 is sometimes classified as Tudor style . The use at the Gloucester Cathedral, about the middle of the 14th cent., of numerous vertical panels of tracery for both windows and walls led to a rapid spread of the style. Its climax was reached in Henry VII's chapel, Westminster (c.1500-1525), where panelings cover... Read more
perpendicular style
World Encyclopedia perpendicular style Final period of English Gothic , from c. 1330 to the mid-16th century. Named after the strong vertical lines of its window tracery and panelling, characteristic features are fan vaulting and flattened arches. Read more
Perpendicular
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Perpendicular. Third and latest of the English Gothic architectural ... followed from the previous Decorated or Second Pointed style. The Perp. style first emerged in designs of c. 1332 for the chapter ... cusped blind spandrels were all evident. So the Perp. style emerged in the first half of C14 in ... Read more

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