. The Architectural magazine. infinite, scarcely two examples being found alike. Even in thesame building it is not uncommon for the windows to be placed in pairs, all the windowson one side differing fromeach other, but correspond-ing with those on the op-posite side. Exeter Cathe-dral is an example of thismode of arrangement,which, it will readily beconceived, must have re-quired a fertility of imagin-ation and an extent ofresource almost inexhaust-ible. Some of the finestspecimens of the east andwest windows of our ca-thedrals are in this west window of YorkMinster, consisting of
. The Architectural magazine. infinite, scarcely two examples being found alike. Even in thesame building it is not uncommon for the windows to be placed in pairs, all the windowson one side differing fromeach other, but correspond-ing with those on the op-posite side. Exeter Cathe-dral is an example of thismode of arrangement,which, it will readily beconceived, must have re-quired a fertility of imagin-ation and an extent ofresource almost inexhaust-ible. Some of the finestspecimens of the east andwest windows of our ca-thedrals are in this west window of YorkMinster, consisting of eightliffhts, and the east windowof Carlisle, and west window of Exeter, cathedrals, of nine lightseach, are the most celebrated. Fig. 119. shows the west windowof Durham. The east window of Lincoln has been alreadymentioned. It is to this style of tracery that Scott so beautifullyrefers, in his description of Melrose Abbey, in i\\Q Lai/of the LastMinstrel: —. nf Gothic Architecture. 221 The moon on the east oriel* shoneTiirough slender shafts of shapely stone By foliated tracery combined;Thou wouldst have thought some fairys handTwixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined;Then framed a spell when the work was done,And turnd the willow wreaths to stone. In the fourteenth century the first specimens of square win-dows occur. We are not aware of any windows of this shapeeither in the Norman or early pointed styles. They are notuncommon at this period in the side aisles of small 120. is from Runcorn church, Cheshire. The square formbecame gradually more and more affected during the fifteenthand sixteenth centuries, particularly in domestic architecture, until it produced the huge mullionedand transomed windows of the Eliza- bethan era, the form of which, in re-mote parts of the country, continued,with some modification, to a very latedate. The architects of this periodbestowed much care and attention
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