A B C of Gothic Architecture

206 THE PEKrEXDICULAR STYLE.
The Moldings of this style differ much from the
preceding ones. They are in general more shallow;
that is,they have more breadth and less depth than
the earlier ones. Those in most use are a wide and
shallow molding, used in the jambs of windows and
doorways, as in Haseley, !N'o.1 ; a shallow ogee ; a
round, or boutell ; a fillet,a kind of hollow quarterround,
and a double
ogee, as in Haseley, Ko. 2. The
wdde molding of cornices is sometimes filled up at intervals
with large paterae,which replacethe four-leaved
flow^er and the ball-flower of the Decorated style ; or
with heads, grotesque figures,or animals and foliage.
These are frequentlyinferior both in conceptionand
execution, to the earlier styles.
There is an ornament which was introduced in this
style,and which is
very characteristic.
This is called the
''Tudor
-flower,"
not because it was
introduced in the
time of the Tudors,but
because
it was so much
Tudor Flower, Henry tlie Seventli's Cliapel.
used at that period. It generallyconsists of some modification
of the fleur-de-lis, alternatelywith a small