On GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. 27 



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

 where they occur in ftone-work; the vegetation did not however 

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

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

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

 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 fatisfacflion, in the courfe of laft au- 

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

 a ftate of decay, in a place correfponding exadlly to thofe we fee 

 executed in Gothic works. 



In this manner, all the original forms of Gothic architedlure 

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

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

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

 the moft 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 fhall endeavour to fliow, 

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

 mination of the adlual monuments of the art, that the moft 

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

 ginal. But to accomplifh this, it will be neceflary previouily 

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

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



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