lled.
Corners of buildings square without buttresses.

NORMAN. William I. A.D. 1066.
William II. " 1087.
Henry I. " 1100.
Stephen " 1135.
Henry II. " 1154 to 1189.

Arches semicircular, occasionally stilted; at first plain,
afterwards enriched with chevron or other mouldings; and
frequent repetition of same ornament on each stone. Piers
low and massive, cylindrical, square, polygonal, or composed
of clustered shafts, often ornamented with spiral bands and
mouldings. Windows generally narrow and splayed internally
only; sometimes double and divided by a shaft. Walls
sometimes a series of arcades, a few pierced as windows, the
rest left blank. Doorways deeply recessed and richly
ornamented with bands of mouldings. Doors often square
headed, but under arches the head of the arch filled with
carving. Capitals carved in outline, often grotesquely
sculptured with devices of animals and leaves. Abacus
square, lower edge moulded. Bases much resembling the
classic orders. The mouldings at first imperfectly formed.
Pedestals of piers square. Buttresses plain, with broad
faces and small projections. Parapets plain with projecting
corbel table under.

Plain mouldings consist of chamfers, round or pointed rolls
at edges, divided from plain face by shallow channels.
Enriched mouldings--the chevrons or zig-zag, the billet
square or round, the cable, the lozenge, the chain, nail
heads, and others. Niches with figures over doorways. Roofs
of moderately high pitch, and open to the frame; timbers
chiefly king-post trusses. Towers square and massive--those
of late date richly adorned with arcades. Openings in towers
often beautifully grouped. Vaulting waggon-headed, and
simple intersecting vaults of semicircular outline.

Towards the close of the style in reign of Henry II.,
details of transitional character begin to appear. Pointed
arch with Norman pier. Arcades of intersecting semicircular
arches. Norman abacus blended with Early English foliage in
capitals.

EARLY ENGLISH. Richard I. A.D. 1189 _Transition._
John " 1199.
Henry III. " 1216.
Edward I. " 1272 to 1307.

General proportions more slender, and height of walls,
c