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142 with lions, dragons, and other symbolic creatures. The chief beauty of the whole is, however, universally admitted to be the groined ceiling of the interior, which is the most exquisite specimen of fan-tracery in existence, the whole surface being spread with a network of lace-like ribbing. The Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, is not so richly ornamented as Henry VII.'s, but is remarkable for being one of the very few large Gothic churches without side-aisles, the absence of which gives an almost overwhelming sense of space. Its vault of fan-tracery yields to none except that of Henry VII.'s Chapel, and for vigorous mastery of the style it is absolutely unequalled by any other building. St. George's Chapel, Windsor, has a fine groined fan-tracery roof, which entitles it to rank with the other two.

The Cloisters and Lady Chapel of Gloucester Cathedral, the central tower, Lady Chapel, nave, and western transepts of York Cathedral, and an immense number of parochial churches — especially in Somersetshire, Gloucestershire, Norfolk, and Suffolk — may be instanced as further examples of the style.

The Scotch chapels of Roslyn and Holyrood belong to this age, and combine the elegance characteristic of it with northern massiveness and simplicity.

The Tudor, or Florid English style, is the term sometimes applied to the Late Perpendicular, when the Pointed style was beginning to decline in England, — which it did not do until some years later than in the rest of Europe. The Tudor style was remarkable for redundancy of ornament, in which a constant repetition of the same forms took the place of the exquisitely-carved foliage and