Chapter I: Preface

In revising this Work for a Fourth Edition several alterations have been made, especially in the Concluding Chapter; and the whole has been considerably enlarged.

M. H. B.

Rugby, April 1841.

CONTENTS.

Page
CHAP. I.
Definition of Gothic Architecture; its Origin, and Division
of it into Styles 17

CHAP. II.
Of the different Kinds of Arches 22

CHAP. III.
Of the Anglo-Saxon Style 30

CHAP. IV.
Of the Norman or Anglo-Norman Style 51

CHAP. V.
Of the Semi-Norman Style 74

CHAP. VI.
Of the Early English Style 86

CHAP. VII.
Of the Decorated English Style 102

CHAP. VIII.
Of the Florid or Perpendicular English Style 120

CHAP. IX.
Of the Debased English Style 145

CONCLUDING CHAPTER.
Of the Internal Arrangement and Decorations of a Church 153

CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS.

Page 41, line 9, _for_ Cambridge, _read_ Lincoln.

Page 49. In addition to the list of churches containing presumed vestiges of Anglo-Saxon architecture, Woodstone Church, Huntingdonshire, and Miserden Church, Gloucestershire, may be enumerated.

Page 71. The double ogee moulding is here inserted by mistake: it is not Norman, but of the fifteenth century.

Page 137. In some copies the wood-cut in this page has been reversed in its position.