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This type is amplified in the arch mouldings of St. Mary's Church, New Shoreham, and is further developed in the pier arches of the choir of Lincoln (Fig. 155).[1] In the nave of the same building the arch moulding becomes richer by the addition of a third order, and each order now assumes an almost perfectly segmental outline.

FIG. 154.

FIG. 155.

  1. I would emphasise the resemblance of the arch mouldings of Lincoln to those of Malmesbury, because it has been erroneously affirmed by Mr. Parker and others that the choir of Lincoln is a purely English building in which no traces of Norman influence appear.