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144 144 ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE. Tart 11. by Hugh of Wells, and its roof may be taken as a type of the first perfected form of English vaulting. It is very simple and beautiful ; but it cannot be denied — and this is felt still more at Exeter — that the 577. Choir of Gloucester Cathetlral. ((Jath. Hb.) great inverted pyramidal blocks of the roof are too heavy for the light piers and pierced walls which support them. Another defect is that ihe lines of the clerestory windows do not accord with the lines of the