. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . es, the foliated circle is sur-rounded by a number of small openings, in theform of trefoilsor quatrefoils, stillpierced through thesolid stone, and notformed of bars asin the later kindof tracery. As thestyle advanced, thethickness of theintervening spaceis gradually dimin-ished, until in thelater examples ofthis style we haveactual bar - tracery (172) , but stillthe early forms offoliated circlesand trefoils arepreserved, as atAmiens, Noyon 171. chartres Cathedral. 0. 1220. (173) , and the shewing a foliated circle of plate-tracery, sur
. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . es, the foliated circle is sur-rounded by a number of small openings, in theform of trefoilsor quatrefoils, stillpierced through thesolid stone, and notformed of bars asin the later kindof tracery. As thestyle advanced, thethickness of theintervening spaceis gradually dimin-ished, until in thelater examples ofthis style we haveactual bar - tracery (172) , but stillthe early forms offoliated circlesand trefoils arepreserved, as atAmiens, Noyon 171. chartres Cathedral. 0. 1220. (173) , and the shewing a foliated circle of plate-tracery, sur-Sciinfo PTior^ollo of ^^o^nded by small quatrefoils of the samc, inbamte Ltiapelie at the head of a window of two lights. Paris; these bear a close resemblance to the later specimens of the EarlyEnglish style, as the chapter-houses of Salisbury andWells, and the presbytery of Lincoln. The Erenchexamples of this kind of tracery have probably thepriority of date by from ten to twenty years, and theearlier kind of tracery, for distinction called by Pro-. 242 EARLY FRENCH WINDOWS, fessor Willis plate-tracery, is abundantly used in France,while it is comparatively rarely found in England. Circular windows are much more commonly used inFrance than in England, in allthe styles. In the Early Frenchstyle they are of the samecharacter as the circular open-ing over the side windows atChartres. The earlier windows areusually entirely without mould-ings, often not even splayed,mere holes cut straight throughthe stone wall; even in thelater examples of this stylethe mouldings are very few andpoor, and are often entirelywanting. It may be observed thatFrench windows in the aislesare generally higher from theground than English ones; itis rare for the sills to be low 172. Auxerre Cathedral, c. for a person to look into ^H^X^t^^the church from the outside, jy^i^^ f^^P^- E?: lish work the cusps wouldwhich in England is very com- turned the other way. monly the case : this appears to
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