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Title: Ontario High School History of England
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Wrong, George M
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Publisher: Toronto : The MacMillan Company of Canada
Contributing Library: The University of Western Ontario, Western Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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Dkcorated Window. Read-ing, ABOUT 1306 lines cross each other at right angles wherever possible;the heads of the arches are almost square. Vaulted stone 177
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Perpendicular Interior, Gloucester Cathedral, about 1355 Note the immense window and the beautiful stone vaulting of the roof, afeature of the perpendicular style. 178 HISTORY OF ENGLAND roofs show exquisite fan tracery, massive in weight, butlight and graceful in appearance. The Perpendicular isthe last stage of Gothic architecture; no further develop-ment was possible. The mediaeval castle.—In the early Norman period, abaronial castle consisted usually of a great, square keep,with massive stone walls, sometimes thirty feet thick atthe base. Before the use of gunpowder had broughtdanger from artillery, such a place might hold out as longas its occupants had food and drink. It was surroundedby a ditch, or moat, filled with water if possible, acrosswhich was thrown a drawbridge, in troubled times loweredonly with great caution. These castles were cramped andcomfortless, and the walls were so thick that but littlelight could penetrate through the narrow openings to thesmall rooms. As

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