On GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. 27 



particular, produced tufts of leaves along the bent part, exadly 

 where they occur in ftone-work; the vegetation did not hov^rever 

 reach, as had been wiilied, to the very fummit, but was. more 

 than fufficient to juftify an artift in the execution of doors like 

 that of Beverley, (fig. ^^.). Three of the rods of the fleeple, 

 alfo, fent out buds, at fmall intervals, to the height of eight 

 or ten feet from the ground, fo as, at one ftage of their growth, 

 to refemble the budded fpire already defcribed. 



I HAVE likewife had the fatisfadtion, in the couife of laft au- 

 tumn, (1796), of finding one entire cufp formed by the bark in 

 a flate of decay, in a place correfponding exad:ly to thofe we fee 

 executed in Gothic works. 



In this manner, all the original forms of. Gothic architecture 

 may be accounted for. But they feldom occur in the ftate of 

 fimpUcity, which, in order to facilitate their defcription, I 

 have hitherto fuppofed ; for, in a Gothic edifice, they are for 

 the mofl part complicated by varieties in execution, and by inter- 

 mixture with each other. They have been modified, likewife, 

 and fometimes difguifed, by the circumftances attending the 

 tranfition from wicker-work to mafonry, which have occafioned 

 changes, both in the general defign of thefe works and in the 

 execution of their minute details. I fliall endeavour to fliow, 

 however, (in the work I have already announced), by an exa- 

 mination of the a(flual monuments of the art, that the moft 

 intricate of thefe forms may be traced to the fame fimple ori- 

 ginal. But to accomplifli this, it will be neceffary previoufly 

 to inveftigate the tranfition to Mafonry ; an inquiry too exten- 

 five to be comprifed within the limits of an academical memoir- 



d2 II, 



