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Perpendicular style   /pˌərpəndˈɪkjələr staɪl/   Listen
Perpendicular style

noun
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A Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting.  Synonyms: English-Gothic, English-Gothic architecture, perpendicular.






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"Perpendicular style" Quotes from Famous Books



... stand upon a pound or two. I'll give 'em a new winder now I am about it, and make a good job of it, howsomever.' A caricature in new stone of the old window had taken its place. In the same church was an old oak rood-screen in the Perpendicular style with some gilding and colouring still remaining. Some repairs had been specified, but I beheld in its place a new screen of varnished deal. 'Well,' replied the builder, more genial than ever, 'please God, now I am about ...
— Vanishing England • P. H. Ditchfield

... devices, anagrams, and, among others, the device of a bar across a tun, indicating the name of Barton. Most of the carving, however, is less elaborate and intricate than these specimens, being in a perpendicular style, and on one pattern. Before the wood grew so very dark, the beauty of the work must have been much more easily seen than now, as to particulars, though I hardly think that the general effect could have been better; at least, the sombre richness that overspreads the entire square of the ...
— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne



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