The exterior wall buttresses became more complex with elongated, flying buttresses. Short lierne ribs between longer ribs to create star patterns. Tierceron ribs were placed between the diagonal, transverse, and ridge ribs. Rather than simple shapes, the capitals of the piers had life-like leaves.Īs the same time, internal vaulting became more complex. The pier bases had roll moldings and some were on an octagonal plinth. The piers on the interior changed in shape from round shafted to octagonal with flat strips (fillets) running up the shaft. The curves often had crockets in the shapes of buds or curled leaves. Rather than pointed arches with convex sides as lancets, ogee curves became common with concave then convex contours on each side of a point. Other patterns were equilateral triangles with curved sides and cusped trefoils in circles. Ballflowers have three- or four-petal flowers, usually nearly closed over a ball. New patterns of stone decorations were used with the ballflower being the most distinctive. Later the patterns became flowing arcs in a reticulated (spider web like) style followed by the flamboyant (flowing lines) style. The geometrical patterns included trefoils, quatrefoils, cinquefoils, sexfoils and octofoils.
With the change to bar tracery, thin strips of stone were used to form geometrical patterns in which the stained-glass was inserted. Plate tracery had thick divisions between the glass, as if the openings were punched out of the solid wall. The most obvious change was in the transition from plate tracery to bar tracery in the stained-glass windows. English Decorated Gothic Architectureĭecorated Gothic architecture replaced Early English Gothic architecture in English cathedrals and churches beginning about 1250 and was the dominant style of new church architecture until about 1370. Professor De Smet cataloged this collection and has provided a list of included cathedrals and churches.
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