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In a few late buildings tlic capping is omaineiited, somewliat lil;e a cresting and in a few instances figures resemhling soldiers on guard have been carved on tlic battlements. Plain battlements have been divided into four descriptions. I. Of nearly equal divi:
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and sometimes with large battlements and small intervals, the capping being onl on the top, and the sides cut plain. HI. Like the last, but with a moulding round the outline, tlie horizontal capping being set upon it. And IV. The most late battlement, witii tiie capping broad, of several mouldings running round the outline, often narrowing the intervals (Rickman). It is seldom tliat the battlements will tell the age of the building, as they have been so often tions, is
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small battlement differing to these four descripwindows of Henry VII. 's chapel. be said in the section Tovveks anu Si-ikes.
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Sect. XI.
MOULDINGS IN WOODWORK. " If this kind of work be attentively examined, it wi'l be seen that it was wrought altogether on the same jjrinciples as the corresponding We see the thoroughly conventional early school, sculpture in stone. the naturalesque middle-pointed scliool, and the again conventional third-
succeeding each other in exiictly the .same the two being that tlie work in wood is ordinarily very much more thin, fl.'ic, delicate, and sharp, than the work in stone that it has always some litnits set to its exuberance by the nature of the framework in which it was wrouglit. In carpenter's work, it was always the rule only to mould the useful , and It was not useful or convenient so it was also as regards the carving. to put on to a piece of oak framing a mass of oak to be carved as a boss or a stopping to a label (this sort of device was reserved for the ingenuity of nineteenth century architects), and so it will be found that most of the old wood-carving is so contrived as to be wrought out of the same plank or thickness as that which is moulded, or else is a separate piece of wood in a spandril, for instance, enclosed within The spandrils the constructional . in the arcades behind tlie stalls at Winchester Cathedral are an irable example; they are carved in thin oak, perforated in all directions, and then set forward about half-an-inch The etlect in advance of the back ling. q{ this is, as m.y be suppo.sid, to give the rig.nzz. he.vky vn pointed school of carvers,
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