. y Jlwlot^ra;h] ? ^^ (a) Sketch illustrating the origin of window-tracery.(bt Late Norman Ornament: Chancel Arch, Tickencote, Rutland. The inouldiiif^s are (from left to right): (a) hood mould, continuous fillet between alternate billets, (6) triangular, (c) zigzag, {d) roll with various heads, ie) embattled roll, (/) beak-head, (g) triple roll. A HALF-TIMBERED CHURCH. Fhulu^iai I. BlatMialt Nether Peover Church, Cheshire. The pointed arch* 59 semi-circular arch. We, looking back, can seethat the Gothic style might have been distin-
. y Jlwlot^ra;h] ? ^^ (a) Sketch illustrating the origin of window-tracery.(bt Late Norman Ornament: Chancel Arch, Tickencote, Rutland. The inouldiiif^s are (from left to right): (a) hood mould, continuous fillet between alternate billets, (6) triangular, (c) zigzag, {d) roll with various heads, ie) embattled roll, (/) beak-head, (g) triple roll. A HALF-TIMBERED CHURCH. Fhulu^iai I. BlatMialt Nether Peover Church, Cheshire. The pointed arch* 59 semi-circular arch. We, looking back, can seethat the Gothic style might have been distin-guished either by the semi-cnxular or the pointedarch. In Germany and Italy the former archheld its own and continued to be used rightthrough the Middle Ages. In England, how-ever, the pointed arch soon gained a decidedvictory over its rival. Many theories have been putforward concerning the introduction of thepointed arch, one amongst them being that itwas the result of the intersection of two roundarches such as is very commonly found in lateNorman work (64); another theory is the poeti-cal idea that it was copied from an avenue of is quite certain in any case that this form ofarch was known in the East for centuries before itreached Europe, having been found in cisterns andtombs in Egypt and Arabia dating from long beforethe Christian era. It has also been suggested thatit was introduced from the east by the C
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