RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 345 
window, which is introduced on the first or principal floor, 
in most apartments of much size or importance, is a 
window of treble or quadruple the common size, projecting 
from the main body of the room in a semi-octagonal or 
hexagonal form, thereby affording more space in the 
apartment, from the floor to the ceiling, as w r ell as giving 
an abundance of light, and a fine prospect in any favorite 
direction. This, while it has a grander effect than several 
windows of moderate size, gives a variety of form and 
outline to the different apartments, that can never be sc 
well attained when the windows are mere openings cut in 
the solid walls. The oriel-window is very similar to the 
bay-window, but projecting in a similar manner from the 
upper story, supported on corbelled mouldings. These 
windows are not only elegant in the interior, but by 
standing out from the face of the walls, they prevent any- 
thing like too great a formality externally, and bestow a 
pleasing variety on the different fronts of the building. 
The sky outline of a villa in the Tudor Gothic style, is 
highly picturesque. It is made up of many fine features. 
The pointed gables, with their finials, are among the most 
striking, and the neat parapet wall, either covered with a 
moulded coping, or, perhaps, diversified with battlements ; 
the latter not so massive as in the castellated style, but 
evidently intended for ornament only. The roof line is 
often varied by the ornamented gablet of a dormer window, 
rising here and there, and adding to the quaintness of the 
whole. We must not forget, above all, the highly enriched 
chimney shaft, which, in the English examples, is made of 
fancifully moulded bricks, and is carried up in clusters 
some distance above the roof. How much more pleasing 
for a dwelling must be the outline of such a building, than 
