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180 ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE. Paut II. and a clerestory. Its proportions are not, however, pleasing, but it makes up in richness of detail for any defects of design. Of the three royal chapels, that at Windsor ( 1475 - 1521 ) is perhaps on the whole the most satisfactory. Being a chapel it has no western 601. luterior View of King's College Chapel, Cambridge. or central towers to break its sky-line and give it external dignity; but internally it is a small cathedral, and, notwithstanding the lateness of some of its details (part of the vault was finished in the reign of Henry VIII. ), is so elegant and so appro])riate in every part as to be