Berkshire, rebuilt between 1293 and 1300, also presents the same mixture. In some instances windows with geometrical tracery have the mouldings and the mullions covered with the ball-flower ornament in great profusion, even to excess: these examples occur chiefly in Herefordshire, as at Leominster (125); and in Gloucestershire, as in the south aisle of the nave of the Cathedral at Gloucester: they are for the most part, if not entirely, of the time of Edward II. There is a very fine window, with reticulated tracery and richly moulded,

in tho south wall of the cloisters at Westminster. No rule whatever is followed in the form of the arch over windows in this style; some are very obtuse, others very acute, and the ogee arch is not uncommon. The inner arch, or rear arch, is also frequently of a different shape and proportions to the outer one: there is also frequently, as have

we

seen

125. Leominster, Herefordshire, o. 1320. Shewing the profusion of the ball-flower.

(123), a series of open cusps hanging from it, called hanging foliation; this is an elegant feature of the

Decorated style. It is more common in some parts of the country than in others: this feature seems to have taken the place of the inner plane of decoration, with tracery and shafts, of the Early English style, as at Stone, Kent (99); and it disappears altogether in the succceding style.

Square-headed windows are very common in this style in many parts of the country, especially in Leicestershire and in Oxfordshire, as at Dorchester (126). This form of window is so convenient that it was never entirely discontinued, though more commonly used in houses and castles than in churches. Windows with a flat segmental arch are also frequently used in this style, as at Over, Cambridgeshire (127); and the dripstone, or projecting moulding over the window to throw off the wet, is sometimes omitted, especially in domestic work. Circular windows are also a fine feature of this style, chiefly used at the

ends of the transepts in largo churches, or at the west end in small ones. A rare instance of an east

shire. Occasionally they are used in side-chapels, as at Cheltenham (128).

The splendid rose-windows which are the glory of so many of the French cathedrals belong generally to this style, although they are also continued in the Flamboyant. In England they belong entirely to the Decorated style, and are never continued in the Perpendicular. The window at the end of the south transept of Lincoln is a very fine example: the one at the end of the south transept of Westminster Abbey is also