An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . The origin of tracery may be carried back even tothe Norman period: from the time that two lights ORIGIN OF TRACERY. were combined underone arch, a space wasleft between the headsof the lights and thearch, which was aneyesore that the archi-tect tried to get rid ofin the best way thathe could. Thus atSutton Courtney, inBerkshire (32), in awindow of the tower,which is late Normanwork, the mouldingsof the sub-arches arecontinued and carriedacross each other onthe flat surface in thehead of the window:if the spaces betweenthese mouldings werep
An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . The origin of tracery may be carried back even tothe Norman period: from the time that two lights ORIGIN OF TRACERY. were combined underone arch, a space wasleft between the headsof the lights and thearch, which was aneyesore that the archi-tect tried to get rid ofin the best way thathe could. Thus atSutton Courtney, inBerkshire (32), in awindow of the tower,which is late Normanwork, the mouldingsof the sub-arches arecontinued and carriedacross each other onthe flat surface in thehead of the window:if the spaces betweenthese mouldings werepierced, we shouldhave tracery. At Church,York, in the west front,is a Norman window of two lights of the usual form,with a small round opening through the head, underthe dripstone which supplies the place of the connect-ing arch over them (33) ; in the tower of St. Giless,Oxford, is a transition Norman window of two lights,with a small lancet-shaped opening in the head, underthe enclosing; 85. Rin£stead, Northants. Square-headed window. 1 io ORIGIN OF TRACERY. In the Early Englishstyle we have, in the laterexamples, tracery in theheads of the windows, bntit is almost invariably inthe form of circles, eitherplain or foliated (86), andis constructed in a dif-ferent manner from genu-ine Decorated tracery. Atfirst the windows havemerely openings piercedthrough the solid masonryof the head1, the solidportions thus left gradu-ally becoming smaller andthe openings larger, untilthe solid parts are reducedto nearly the same thick-
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