PERPENDICULAR STYLE


Meaning of PERPENDICULAR STYLE in English

Phase of late Gothic architecture in England roughly parallel in time to the French Flamboyant style .

The style, concerned with creating rich visual effects through decoration, was characterized by a predominance of vertical lines in stone window tracery , enlargement of windows to great proportions, and conversion of the interior stories into a single unified vertical expanse. Fan pendants , became popular. The oldest surviving example of the style is probably the choir of Gloucester Cathedral (begun с 1335). Other major monuments include King's College Chapel, Cambridge (1446–1515), and the chapel of Henry VII in {{link=Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey . In the 16th century, the grafting of Renaissance elements onto the Perpendicular style resulted in the Tudor style .

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