CHAPTER VI.

TRANSITIONAL PERIOD.

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERISTIC.

THE CONTEMPORANEOUS USE, IN THE SAME BUILDING, OF CIRCULARAND POINTED ARCHES,

Exterior Compartment .

On the outside the usual prevalence of the circulararch in the Windows and Doorways, gives still aNorman character to the building; but the Base-courseand Buttresses begin to shew greater projection, andthe walls are lightened in proportion.

The invariable Billet moulding disappears from theString-courses.

The Windows are more elongated in form, and havelighter shafts.

The circular Corbel-table gives place to a regularlymoulded Cornice , carried on a series of blocks of uni-form profile; and a sloped Coping covers the Parapet .

In some of the latest examples indeed, the Buttresseshave Set-offs, and, rising above the parapet, have alsoa pyramidal Capping.

An increasing lightness of proportion is perceptiblein all parts of the buildings of this Period.

Interior Compartment.

Except in the earliest examples of this Period, the