. The Architectural magazine. i-A jiaiiiisiU-Usii sometimes embracing the whole. vanced, more ornament began to be introduced; the unsightlyappearance of the head of the double lancet window was avoidedby inserting a circle between the heads with a dripstone the same time commenced the foliation, or feathering, ofthese circles and window heads, perhaps the most elegant and 218 FAemoits and Principles 11?. characteristic ornament of the Gothic style. This continueduntil towards the close of the thirteenth century, when a further change took place. Up tothis time, althouoh three,five,
. The Architectural magazine. i-A jiaiiiisiU-Usii sometimes embracing the whole. vanced, more ornament began to be introduced; the unsightlyappearance of the head of the double lancet window was avoidedby inserting a circle between the heads with a dripstone the same time commenced the foliation, or feathering, ofthese circles and window heads, perhaps the most elegant and 218 FAemoits and Principles 11?. characteristic ornament of the Gothic style. This continueduntil towards the close of the thirteenth century, when a further change took place. Up tothis time, althouoh three,five, or seven lights mightbe combined together, yet,the divisions betweenthem being the full thick-ness of the wall, eachlight, in fact, constituteda separate window, thearch being entirely dis-tinct, and only united bya dripstone overall. Un-der these ciaeumstances,any thing like tracery wasmanifestly the latter end ofthe thirteenth century,these separate lights, or bays, began to be united into one window,by an arch surmounting the whole, and extending through thewall. The heavy divisions became now no longer necessary,and were accordingly superseded by the light muUions and tracery of the decorated period. Thistransition, although tolerably rapid inpoint of time, yet advanced by steps sogradual, and differences so minute, thatit is not in all cases very easy to markeach stage of its progre
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