. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 384 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECrs JOURNAL. [Ueceuber, window arch, where the pattern is as arbitrarily cut off as a piece of damask coiihl he with the scissors of tlie mercer's apprentice. One objection will be made to all that I have advanced. There are cases where my definitions and descriptions will not abso- lutely hold. In the window of Great Bedwyn, for instance, there are several oj^ees. In the east window of Market Ilarborough, parts of the design are Geometrical,
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 384 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECrs JOURNAL. [Ueceuber, window arch, where the pattern is as arbitrarily cut off as a piece of damask coiihl he with the scissors of tlie mercer's apprentice. One objection will be made to all that I have advanced. There are cases where my definitions and descriptions will not abso- lutely hold. In the window of Great Bedwyn, for instance, there are several oj^ees. In the east window of Market Ilarborough, parts of the design are Geometrical, part Flowinfj Decorated; and so of many other cases, 'i'his is very true. But remember that we 3|jrreed, awhile ago, that tliis must always be so, and indeed, it is the case equally with Decorated and Perpendicular, and with all the styles. In Kirkstall, Fimntains, and IJuildwas, what would be called Norman, if seen alone, actually occurs over what would be called Early English. In I'atrington, Yorkshire, the east window is pure Perpendicular, all the rest is Decorated. In many other churches we have windows which cannot be historically separated, yet which cannot architecturally be classed together. These are difficulties which occur now and then, and must occur. Yet they do not render it less necessary to call this or that building as a whole, Norman or Early English, Decorated or Perpendicular. 1 only claim for the Geometric style the same indulgence. Directly or by inference I find otliers agreeing with me in demanding that the Geometrical shall be acknowledged as an- other style. iMr. Sharpe, for instance, in his work on 'Decorated Window Tracery' (to which I cannot allude without adding a word of very high commendation,) having defined the difference between tlie windows in what used to be called Early and Late Decorated, adds, " We have only to carry our incpiiries a step further in order to satisfy ourselves that these points of difference are not confined to the
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