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- a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting
How To Use perpendicular style In A Sentence
- The town was kept going by a fine Abbey, whose last church still stands as one of the final triumphs of the Perpendicular style.
- It is in the typical English perpendicular style, being square-ended, not the semi-circular apsidal ends as favoured on the continent.
- The window is an "oriel" in the Perpendicular style, separated vertically by mullions into three lights in front, with one at each end of the projection, and horizontally by transoms into an upper and lower tier, the former having a trefoil heading to each division. Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less
- The Round Tower was remodelled, and then ranges of new buildings in the perpendicular style were erected around the Upper Ward to provide better accommodation and perhaps to enhance the castle's skyline.
- Kentish ragstone, in the Perpendicular style, with quatrefoil parapet, ornamental pinnacles and spire. Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London
- The Round Tower was remodelled, and then ranges of new buildings in the perpendicular style were erected around the Upper Ward to provide better accommodation and perhaps to enhance the castle's skyline.