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 140 Architecture in Great Britain. examples we may name Lichfield Cathedral, the Abbey Church of Bristol, the nave of York Cathedral, the nave of Exeter Cathedral, Battle Abbey, and Tintern Abbey. Many churches were enlarged and enriched by the addition of such chapels during the prevalence of this style. Excel- lent examples of its mouldings and ornamentations are to be found in the many fourteenth century tombs and monuments in our cathedrals and churches. A great improvement took place in domestic architec- ture in England in the reign of Edward III., especially in the halls of castles and palaces. The Round Tower of Windsor was built by him for the table of the Knights of the Order of the Garter, founded in his reign. As examples still remaining, we have the hall of the Bishop's Palace, Wells, and the gatehouse there ; one of the gatehouses at Bury St. Edmunds, the hall at Penshurst, the earlier parts of Haddon Hall, and the noted Edwardian castles of Wales — such as Conway, Caernarvon, and Chepstow. Third Period of Gothic Architecture in England: the Perpendicular Style, sometimes called " Third Pointed." — The style which succeeded the Decorated in England is known as the Perpendicular. It is generally considered to have prevailed from 1377 — the date of the accession of Richard II. — to 1546 — the date of the death of Henry VIII.,— and in the phase called Tudor until 1630-40- It was contemporary with the Flamboyant style in France. Its chief characteristics are the rectilinear lines which replaced the flowing tracery of the windows of the Decorated period. The same feeling, however, pervaded the other features of Perpendicular buildings, — the buttresses, towers, and piers being all slight, and continuous vertical