An analysis of Gothic architecture Illustrated by a series of upwards of seven hundred examples of doorways, windows, mouldings, roofs, arches, crosses, panels, buttresses, seats, screens, etc., and accompanied with remarks on the several details of an ecclesiastical edifice . es of the larger circles, while a second series of similar and equal triangles gives the smallerand inner circles. In the window figured inPlate 5, of Section I. Decorated, from North-fleet Church, this principle of formation isshown to determine the construction of atotally different design : the same is the caseas rega
An analysis of Gothic architecture Illustrated by a series of upwards of seven hundred examples of doorways, windows, mouldings, roofs, arches, crosses, panels, buttresses, seats, screens, etc., and accompanied with remarks on the several details of an ecclesiastical edifice . es of the larger circles, while a second series of similar and equal triangles gives the smallerand inner circles. In the window figured inPlate 5, of Section I. Decorated, from North-fleet Church, this principle of formation isshown to determine the construction of atotally different design : the same is the caseas regards the subsequent specimens, in Plates6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 18, and 2(j, all diff^ering moreor less one from . , . , u, ,,,,,, Am, Nor will this principle be found applicable only to tracery of windows. The beautiful mosaic pavement in the Chapel of Edwardthe Confessor, Westminster Al)bey, is a most remarkable example, of the not alwaysobserved but ever active influence of the equilateral triangle in all the purer designs ofthe Middle Ages, and also of tlie earnest desire to assign to that figure a distinct andprominent position. The same remark is equally applicable to the exquisite diaperin the great Flemish Brasses at St Albans, Lynn, and Newark. The peculiar.
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