The first of three programmes about design.
A Paradise of Pinnacles
Perpendicular was the climax of the Gothic style. Characterised by strong vertical lines, shallow arches and decorative fan vaulting, it coincided with the emergence of the English state in the years 1330 to 1530. Joe Mordaunt Crook , Professor of Architectural History at the University of London, visits five outstanding examples and reveals the men who built and paid for these miracles of structural engineering and the society this style expressed. Reader Samuel West. Repeat