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GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND. I3I 



towers with groined vaults, and also tO' their having between 

 them a third groined vault, " the upper surface of which 

 provides a gallery." A small but effective plate from 

 Mr. Bond's camera shows this gallery in a view of the nave 

 looking east. 



In the chapter on roofs towards the end of the volume the 

 same photograph serves to illustrate the four-centred arches 

 formed by the arched braces supporting the tie beams of the 

 nave. 



The characteristics of English Gothic from 1300 to 1350 

 are discussed in Chapter V. Here, in the second paragraph, 

 Tideswell is given as an instance of the continuance of the 

 cruciform plan in larger churches, with aisled naves ; and it 

 is named further on in the same chapter in a list of eleven 

 specially noble churches of the reign of Edward III. Attention 

 in drawn in Chapter XV. to the excessive breadth of the pier 

 fillets of this church. It is, however, when treating of 

 curvilinear window tracery that Mr. Bond makes so much use 

 of Tideswell. The five-light south transept window (of which 

 there is not a very good illustration) is named as one in which 

 the five bottom pointed arches are united " into four inter- 

 secting pointed arches, and the two central of these into one 

 ogee arch." He does not consider this window of a very 

 high, standard, for "the pointed arches and the flamboyant 

 tracery are discordant, whereas in the best curvilinear windows 

 the mullion fuses into tracery without the slightest break of 

 continuity." But it does not require a very practised eye to 

 detect the general striking effect of Tideswell church, or the 

 dignity of the choir and transept windows. Mr. Bond's 

 particular and exceptional methods of showing the meaning 

 and special effectiveness of all the component parts of a good 

 Gothic church lead him not only to note, but to illustrate 

 a part of Tideswell church that would have been overlooked 

 by ninety per cent, of the usual run of church photographers, 

 and would probably escape the attention of a considerable 

 percentage of intelligent ecclesiologists. In his chapter on 



