Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Julia Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber’s Note A number of typographical errors found in the original text have been maintained in this version. They are marked in the text with a [TN-#]. A description of each error is found in the complete list at the end of the text. The following less-common characters were used in the original text. If they do not display correctly, please change your font. m̅n̅ mn with a macron over the two letters o̅m̅ om with a macron over the two letters o̅n̅ on with a macron over the two letters r̅e̅ re with a macron over the two letters “Whereby may be discerned that so fervent was the zeal of those elder times to God’s service and honour, that they freely endowed the church with some part of their possessions; and that in those good works even the meaner sort of men, as well as the pious founders, were not backwards.” Dugdale’s Antiq. Warwickshire. [Illustration] THE PRINCIPLES OF GOTHIC ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE, ELUCIDATED BY QUESTION AND ANSWER. BY MATTHEW HOLBECHE BLOXAM. FOURTH EDITION. OXFORD: JOHN HENRY PARKER. PREFACE. In revising this Work for a Fourth Edition several alterations have been made, especially in the Concluding Chapter; and the whole has been considerably enlarged. M. H. B. Rugby, April 1841. CONTENTS. Page CHAP. I. Definition of Gothic Architecture; its Origin, and Division of it into Styles 17 CHAP. II. Of the different Kinds of Arches 22 CHAP. III. Of the Anglo-Saxon Style 30 CHAP. IV. Of the Norman or Anglo-Norman Style 51 CHAP. V. Of the Semi-Norman Style 74 CHAP. VI. Of the Early English Style 86 CHAP. VII. Of the Decorated English Style 102 CHAP. VIII. Of the Florid or Perpendicular English Style 120 CHAP. IX. Of the Debased English Style 145 CONCLUDING CHAPTER. Of the Internal Arrangement and Decorations of a Church 153 CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. Page 41, line 9, _for_ Cambridge, _read_ Lincoln. Page 49. In addition to the list of churches containing presumed vestiges of Anglo-Saxon architecture, Woodstone Church, Huntingdonshire, and Miserden Church, Gloucestershire, may be enumerated. Page 71. The double ogee moulding is here inserted by mistake: it is not Norman, but of the fifteenth century. Page 137. In some copies the wood-cut in this page has been reversed in its position.