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hension. In restoring old roofs and other constructions of wood, 

 only so much as is decayed and unsound should be removed, and 

 the restoration should be piece by piece. Workmen are fond of 

 re-cutting old stonework to make it look fresh and to match the 

 new. They should be warned not to do this, or reface the stone of 

 walls. The tooling on the face of the stonework of walls is 

 sometimes the only mark by which the date of a wall can be fixed. 

 In the notes on the churches, instead of styles centuries are given, 

 as the mention of styles does not convey any definite idea of date 

 to minds unfamiliar with them. 



Thus by 12th cent, will be understood Norman style ; 13th 

 cent., Early English; 14th cent., Decorated English; 15th cent., 

 Perpendicular English. The chronological table beneath, taken 

 from Rickman's Gothic architecture, shews the duration of the 

 styles of architecture thus classed under the head of centuries. 



It should be borne in mind, however, that the several styles may 

 be some few years later in the country, in out-of-the-way places. 



CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. 



* Few, if any, whole buildings were executed in this style later than 

 Henry VIII. 



