. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . i66 DECORATED WINDOWS. Windows with flowing tracery, and those with reti-culated, or net-like forms (124), are in general some-what later than thegeometrical pat-terns ; at least, theydo not seem to havebeen introducedquite so early; butthey are very fre-quently contempo-raneous, and bothclasses may oftenbe found side byside in the samebuilding, evidentlyerected at the sametime. An early in-stance of this occursat Stoke Golding,in Leicestershire, built between 1275 , - ^ 124. St. Mary Magdalen Churcli, Oxford, c. 1320. ana l^yU, as ap- sh
. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . i66 DECORATED WINDOWS. Windows with flowing tracery, and those with reti-culated, or net-like forms (124), are in general some-what later than thegeometrical pat-terns ; at least, theydo not seem to havebeen introducedquite so early; butthey are very fre-quently contempo-raneous, and bothclasses may oftenbe found side byside in the samebuilding, evidentlyerected at the sametime. An early in-stance of this occursat Stoke Golding,in Leicestershire, built between 1275 , - ^ 124. St. Mary Magdalen Churcli, Oxford, c. 1320. ana l^yU, as ap- shewing flowing tracery with cusps, of thepears by an inscrip- variety called reticulated, or net-like. tion still remaining: the windows have mostly geo-metrical tracery, but several have flowing^. Severalchurches in JNorthamptonshire have windows withtracery alternately geometrical and flowing. The samemixture occurs in the glorious churches of Selby Ab-bey, Yorkshire, and St. Marys, Beverley. Eray Church,. ^ Good engravings of this church are published in Weales QuarterlyPapers. London, 1843-45, 4 vols. 4to. DECORATED WINDOWS. 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 ingreat profusion, even to excess: these examples occurchiefly in Herefordshire, as at Leominster (125); andin Gloucestershire, as in the south aisle of the naveof the Cathedral at Gloucester: they are for the mostpart, if not entirely, of the time of Edward II. There is a very fine window, with reticulated traceryand richly moul ded, in the south wallof the cloisters atWestminster. Norule whatever isfollowed in theform of the archover windows inthis style; someare very obtuse,others very acute,and the ogee archis not inner arch, orrear arch, is alsofrequently of a dif-ferent shape andproportions to theouter one: there isalso frequently, aswe have
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