FLAMBOYANT See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

STYLE  , the See also:

• TERM

term given to the phase of See also:

• GOTHIC

Gothic See also:

• ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France which corresponds in See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period to the Perpendicular See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style . The word literally means " flowing " or " flaming," in consequence of the resemblance to the curved lines of See also:

• FLAME (Lat. flamma; the root flag- appears in flagrare, to burn, blaze, and Gr. d, XEryew)

flame in window See also:

• TRACERY

tracery . The earliest examples of flowing tracery are found in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England in the later phases of the Decorated style, where, in consequence of the omission of the enclosing circles of the tracery, the carrying through of the foliations resulted in a See also:

• CURVE (Lat. curvus, bent)

curve of contrary flexure of See also:

• OGEE (probably an English corruption of Fr. ogive, a diagonal groin rib, being a moulding commonly employed; equivalents in other languages are Lat. cyma-reversa, Ital. gola, Fr. cymaise, Ger. Kehlleisten)

ogee See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form and hence the term flowing tracery . In the See also:

• MINSTER
• MINSTER (from Lat. monasterium; cf. German Munster)

minster and the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church of St See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

Mary at See also:

• BEVERLEY
• BEVERLEY, WILLIAM ROXBY (1814?-1889)

Beverley, dating from 1320 and 1330, are the earliest examples in England; in France its first employment See also:

• DATES

dates from about 146o, and it is now generally agreed that the flamboyant style was introduced from See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• SOURCES

sources . One of the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief characteristics of the flamboyant style in France is that known as " interpenetration," in which the See also:

• BASE

base See also:

• MOULDINGS

mouldings of one See also:

• SHAFT
• SHAFT (O. Eng., sceaft, from scafan, to shave; the word is common to Teutonic languages)

shaft are penetrated by those of a second shaft of which the faces are set diagonally . This interpenetration, which was in a sense a tour de force of See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French masons, was carried to such an extent that in a lofty See also:

• ROOD (O.E. rod, a stick, another form of " rod, O.E. rodd, possibly cognate with Lat. rudis, a staff)

rood-See also:

• SCREEN (usually, but very doubtfully, connected with Lat. scrinium, a box for holding books, from scribere, to write; a connexion with Ger. Schranke, barrier, has been suggested)

screen the mouldings penetrating the base-See also:

• MOULD

mould would be found to be those of a See also:

• DIAGONAL (Gr. &a, through, ywvia, a corner)

diagonal See also:

• BUTTRESS (from the O. Fr. bouteret, that which bears a thrust, from bouter, to push, cf. Eng. " butt " and " abutment ")

buttress situated 20 to 30 ft. above it . It was not limited, however, tointernal See also:

• WORK

work; in See also:

• LATE

late 15th and See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century ecclesiastical architecture it is found on the facades of some French cathedrals, and often on the outside of chapels added in later times .