Oxford, chapter-house at, i. 286; Merton Chapel, 287; St. Peter’s, moulded vaulting ribs, ii. 194; staircase to the hall, Christ Church, 221; Divinity schools, 222, 225. P Pagan origin of pointed architecture, i. 9, 10. Pagan tribes, ii. 5; in Britain, 9, 14. Painted decoration, i. 34, 203. Painted glass, i. 22, 34, 147, 203, 297, 357; in secular work, 361. Painting, i. 142; fresco, 213, 271; figure, 357; introduction of, into vaulting surfaces, ii. 188; art of, its origin, 291; in Egypt, 297. Palermo, architecture of, ii. 8. Paley, Mr., ii. 57. Palgrave, Sir Francis, ii. 125, 130. Panels of vaulting, i. 60. Pantaleon, St., Cologne, i. 278, 279; ii. 12, 25. Pantheon, i. 271; ii. 231-234, 237, 244, 246, 253, 260-262, 282, 283. Parapets, i. 256, 258. Paris, district round, i. 33; Nôtre Dame, 97, 100, 102, 126, 141, 144, 166, 321; St Germain des Près, 62, 65, 85, 92; Montmartre, 102, 319; the focus of the transition, 73; Sainte Chapelle, 103, 183, 324; architecture of, 318; Hôtel Cluny, 324; St. Julien le Pauvre, 97, 320. Paris, Matthew, account of King Edward’s church at Westminster, ii. 68. Parker’s, Mr., “Glossary,” ii. 56; paper on St. Stephen’s at Caen, 66. Parliament Houses, London, difficulty of finding suitable stone for, i. 222. Parthenon, i. 18. Parthians who used the semi-elliptical arch, ii. 179. Patricus or St. Patrick, ii. 13. Paul, monk of St. Stephen’s at Caen, ii. 95; rebuilt St. Alban’s, 96, 99, 104. Paulinus, Roman missionary, ii. 29, 30, 50. Paul’s, St., London, bar-tracery at, i. 163; ii. 114, 280-299; section of dome founded on the pointed arch, 282; scheme of the plan, 287. Peace, Temple of, ii. 282, 283. Peckham, Archbishop, tomb of, i. 140, 184, 308. Pedestals, of doorways, i. 87; fluted, 93. Pedestrian tours, i. 31. Pelasgi, pointed arch foreshadowed in works of the, i. 66; Cyclopean walls of the, ii. 300. Pendentives, ii. 242-257, 281, 282; give place to corbels in many French churches, 276. Penshurst, halls at, i. 276, 343. Pericles, period of, ii. 4; historians and philosophers of the days of, 300, 312. Perigord, domical churches of, i. 76. Perigueux, St. Front at, ii. 271-273, 278. Persepolis, Hall of Xerxes, ii. 299. Pershore, church at, i. 90; ii. 122. Persia, succeeded Egypt and Assyria in art and dominion, i. 5; ii. 298, 299, 301; structures of, 245, 304. Persians, incursions of the, i. 11; Romanesque builders and ornaments of the, 134. Peterborough, monastery at, ii, 32, 33; abbots of, who erected the church at Brixworth, 40. Peterborough Cathedral, i. 191; ii. 33, 99; transept aisles, 90; eastern end, 113. Peter’s, St., Rome, ii. 115, 253, 280-289; section of dome founded on the pointed arch, 282; scheme of the plan, 287. Peter’s, St., at Gowts, Lincoln, ii. 72. Petit, Mr., definition of the Norman style, ii. 73. Petrie, Mr., on early Irish remains, ii. 15, 17.