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Definition of Perpendicular style

1. Noun. A Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perpendicular Style

Literary usage of Perpendicular style

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gothic Architecture in France, England, and Italy by Thomas Graham Jackson (1915)
"THE perpendicular style, continued IF the perpendicular style began at Gloucester it appeared almost at the same time throughout England. ..."

2. An Introduction to the Study of Gothic Architecture by John Henry Parker (1888)
"The broad distinction of the perpendicular style lies in the form of the tracery in the head of the windows; and in fully developed examples the distinction ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"perpendicular style, a variety of pointed or Gothic architecture, ... Another characteristic of the perpendicular style is its extensive use of ..."

4. The Archaeological Journal by Council, British Archaeological Association, Central Committee (1889)
"THE perpendicular style IN EAST ANGLIA, CHIEFLY ILLUSTRATED BY EXAMPLES IN NORTH NORFOLK.1 BY JL ANDBE. Those of my hearers who are old enough to remember ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"In 1361 Archbishop Thoresby (1352-73) began the lady chapel and presbytery, both in the Early perpendicular style. The rebuilding of the choir, ..."

6. An Introduction to the Study of Gothic Architecture by John Henry Parker (1877)
"Elevation of the West Front, shewing the transition from the Decorated to the perpendicular style. ..."

7. The Mediæval Church Architecture of England by Charles Herbert Moore (1912)
"CHAPTER IX THE perpendicular style THE havoc wrought in the fourteenth ... The peculiarities that distinguish what is known as the perpendicular style had, ..."

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