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n.
A style of English Gothic architecture of the late 13th to mid-14th century, characterized by rich ornamentation and the use of ogees in arches and window tracery.
Decorated style
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Term referring to the styles of architecture and decoration in Britain from c. 1250 to c. 1360. It was coined in 1817 by Thomas Rickman, who divided English medieval architecture into four stylistic phases: Norman, Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular. These divisions have, with modifications, persisted, despite being criticized by such mid-19th-century writers as Sharpe in 1849 and condemned as inadequate by Prior in 1900. They have been confirmed in popular use by their adoption as convenient style labels in Pevsner's Buildings of England series.
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| Architecture: Decorated style |
The second of the three phases of English Gothic architecture, from ca. 1280 to after 1350, preceded by Early English style and followed by the Perpendicular style; characterized by rich decoration and tracery, multiple ribs and liernes, and often ogee arches. Its early development is called Geometric; its later, Curvilinear.
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| Columbia Encyclopedia: Decorated style |
Decorated style, name applied to the second period of English Gothic architecture from the late 13th to the mid-14th cent. The basic structural elements developed during the Early English style (late 12th and 13th cent.) were retained, but their decoration became more elaborate. Stone construction became lighter and more spacious, and vaulting became more complex. The Decorated style can be further divided into an early geometric phase and a later curvilinear phase. The Decorated style is exemplified in Bristol Cathedral. After c.1350, it was succeeded by the Perpendicular or Rectilinear style of English Gothic architecture.
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