An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . Shewing flowing tracery with cusps, of the varietycalled reticulated, or net-like. DECORATED WINDOWS. M3 geometrical tracery, but several have flowing». Severalchurches in Northamptonshire have windows with tra-cery alternately geometrical and flowing. The samemixture occurs in the glorious churches of Selby Abbey,Yorkshire, and St. Marys, Beverley. Bray Church,Berkshire, rebuilt between 1293 and 1300, also pre-sents the same mixture. In some instances windowswith geometrical tracery have the mouldings and themullions covered with the ball-
An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . Shewing flowing tracery with cusps, of the varietycalled reticulated, or net-like. DECORATED WINDOWS. M3 geometrical tracery, but several have flowing». Severalchurches in Northamptonshire have windows with tra-cery alternately geometrical and flowing. The samemixture occurs in the glorious churches of Selby Abbey,Yorkshire, and St. Marys, Beverley. Bray Church,Berkshire, rebuilt between 1293 and 1300, also pre-sents the same mixture. In some instances windowswith geometrical tracery have the mouldings and themullions covered with the ball-flower ornament in greatprofusion, even to excess: these examples occur chieflyin Herefordshire,as at Leominster( 117 ); and inGloucestershire, asin the south aisleof the nave of theCathedral at Glou-cester : they arefor the most part,if not entirely, ofthe time of Ed-ward II. There is a veryfine window, withreticulated traceryand richly mould-ed, in the southwall of the clois-ters at Westmin-ster. Norulewhat-. 117. Leominster, Herefordshire, c. 1320, « Good engravings of this church are published in Weales QuarterlyPapers. i44 DECORATED WINDOWS. ever is followed in the form of the arch over win-dows in this style; some are very ohtuse, othersvery acute, and the ogee arch is not inner arch is also frequently of a different shapeand proportions to the outer one: there is also fre-quently, as we have seen (p. 141), a series of opencusps hanging from it, called hanging foliation; thisis an elegant feature of the Decorated style. It ismore common in someparts of the coun-try than in others :this feature seemsto have taken theplace of the innerplane of decoration,with tracery andshafts, of the EarlyEnglish style, as atStone, Kent (91);and it disappears al-together in the suc-ceeding style. Square-headed win-dows are very com-mon in this style inmany parts of thecountry, especially inLeicestershire and in
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