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Title: An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: Oxford: J. Parker and Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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a In Norfolk there are several fine examples remaining of galleries andscreens, commonly called roodlofts, being used at the west end of the churchalso, under the tower, and across the tower-arch; and this in churches wherethe roodloft, properly so called, still remains across the chancel-arch, so thatthere is a quasi-roodloft at each end of the nave. There is no doubt that FEEPEirmCULAR ROOFSo 209 not altogether a mistake. Toothing can well exceedthe richness and beauty of the Perpendicular wood-.
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165. St. MichaePs, Coventry, c. 1500.Shewing a panelled inner roof, or ceiling, with arched tie-heams. work, and it is easy to imagine that a ehurcli of thetwelfth or thirteenth century has been newly furnishedin the fifteenth or sixteenth. We have, however, some this custom prevailed in many other counties also, but the western loft hasgenerally been destroyed in consequence of the barbarous custom of block-*ing up the tower-arch, which is often the finest feature in the church. 210 PERPENDICULAR HOUSES AND CASTLES. very beautiful examples of Decorated wood-work inscreens, and stalls with their canopies, as at Win-

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