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142 ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE. Part II. very clumsy expedient was abandoned ; and, by the introduction of a bracket in the nave, and afterwards of a vaulting shaft in the choii-, a 575. Nave of Lincoln Cathedral. (Cath. Hb.) vault of the usual quadrilateral form was successfully carried out between the years 1233 and 1284. It is probably to St. Hugh of Lincoln that we owe the first perfect vault in England . Coming from Burgundy he must have been familiar
