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 206 NOTICES OP ARCHAEOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS. less altered by changing the tracery of each window from geometrical to flowing, tlian by substituting for each a combination of lancets ? Much of the Decorated work in Lincolnshire, which has flowing tracery, still reminds us of this exquisite example, and seems to have looked to it as a type. In the transition from Decorated to Perpendicular, the very interesting church of Edington is noticed as the earliest authenticated example. We are enabled to give the view of tlie west front. " Built by William de Edington, Bishop of Winchester, the first stone was laid in 1352, and the church was dedicated in 1361. It is a fine cruciform church, all of uniform character, and that character is neither Decorated nor Perpendicular, but a very remark- able mixture of the two styles throughout : the tracery of the windows looks at first sight like Decorated, but, on looking more closely, the introduction of Perpendicular features is very evident ; the west doorway has the segmental arch, common in Decorated work, over this is the usual square label of the Perpendicular, and under the arch is Perpendicular panelling over the heads of the two doors ; the same curious mixture is observable in the mouldings, and in all the details. This example is the more valuable, from the circumstance that it was Bishop Edington who commenced the altera- tion of Winchester Cathedral into the Perpendicular style ; he died in 1366, and the work was continued by William of Wykeham, who mentions in his will that Edington had finished the west end, with two windows on the north side, and one on the south ; the change in the character of the work is very distinctly marked." —(P. 176-178.) This is a church that demands attentive study, and is the more valuable from the date being known. A few remarks on French- Gothic are appended, which, however cursory, are suflScient to direct attention to the principal points of difference, both between English and French work, and between that of different districts in France. Mr. Parker has kindly placed at our disposal a few illustrations, exemplifying the peculiarities of ecclesiastical architecture in that country (See woodcuts). The beautiful flying- buttresses of the Abbey Church of St. Denis are, perhaps, with- out parallel in our country. Of the peculiar character of the style distinguished as " Flam- boyant," the Church of St. Dinan, c. 1500, sup- admirable illustration, introduced to a very remarkable class of churches — those in the province of Anjou. They " huvo usually no aisles ; the nave and choir are extremely wide. Sauveur, plies an We are !>t. i^auveiir, Diiiiiii,