An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders . Piddington, Oxfordshire, c- 1280. Bamptua, Uxfordshire, c. 1280. DECORATED ENGLISH WINDOWS. 185. be called geometrical tracery; of this description are the win-dows of the nave of York, the eastern choir of Lincoln, andsome of the tracery in the cloisters at Westminster Abbey,as well as most of ihe windows at Exeter. [In Kent a peculiar description of tracery is used, the trefoilsand quatrefoils being doubly foliated, and the cusps often ter-m
An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders . Piddington, Oxfordshire, c- 1280. Bamptua, Uxfordshire, c. 1280. DECORATED ENGLISH WINDOWS. 185. be called geometrical tracery; of this description are the win-dows of the nave of York, the eastern choir of Lincoln, andsome of the tracery in the cloisters at Westminster Abbey,as well as most of ihe windows at Exeter. [In Kent a peculiar description of tracery is used, the trefoilsand quatrefoils being doubly foliated, and the cusps often ter-minated by knobs forming a sort of crocket. This peculiarity,called Kentish tracery, will be better understood from the ex-ample at Chartham, p. 182, than by any description.] The second division consists of what may be truly calledflowing tracery. Of this description, York Minster, the Minsterand St. Marys, at Be-verley, Newark Church,and many northernchurches, as well as somesouthern churches, containmost beautiful great west window atYork and the east windowat Carlisle are perhaps themost elaborate. In thericher windows of thisstyle, and in both di-visions, the principalmoulding of the mullionhas sometimes a capitaland base,
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