An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . 98. Westminster Abbey, window inclosing a foliated circle. triangle is made to inclose a foliated circle (98): thesame gradual progress towards regular tracery may benoticed in these as in the other classes. Cusps form so important a part of tracery, that it isalmost necessary to point outtheir succession and varietyalso. They may be found oc-casionally, though rarely, inNorman work. In the EarlyEnglish period they are abun-dant, and frequently orna-mented with sculpture, or fo-liage, or heads; but they areattached to th
An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . 98. Westminster Abbey, window inclosing a foliated circle. triangle is made to inclose a foliated circle (98): thesame gradual progress towards regular tracery may benoticed in these as in the other classes. Cusps form so important a part of tracery, that it isalmost necessary to point outtheir succession and varietyalso. They may be found oc-casionally, though rarely, inNorman work. In the EarlyEnglish period they are abun-dant, and frequently orna-mented with sculpture, or fo-liage, or heads; but they areattached to the lower surfaceor soffit of the mullion, or tra-cery bar (99), and do not seem to grow out of it, andform part of it, in the same manner as they do inDecorated 99. cusp, Raunds, Northamptonshire. 122 PROGRESS OF TRACERY. We have thus endeavoured to point out some of theprincipal ways by which tracery was arrived at, andto shew that the progress was so gradual, step by step,without any hiatus, that there is no necessity to lookabroad for any specimens to fill up gaps in the same steps seem to have been taken simultaneouslyin foreign countries, or we may have copied particularforms, but there is no evidence that we borrowed thewhole system from them. The usual test of the im-portation of a new style is a decided leap from onestyle to another, and tbis was clearly not the case withthe introduction of tracery into England. The origin of tracery has been much discussed, and it is commonlyasserted that the French and the Germans had considerably thestart of England in this particular and important part of Gothicarchitecture, if not in the whole style. This is, however, by nomeans a settled point, but one fairly open to further investiga
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