An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . 143. Clear-story choir, York Cathedral,&.D. 1361—1403. PERPENDICULAR DOORWAYS. 173 flat-arched windows, are frequent in this style. Inrich churches there is sometimes a double plane oftracery, the one glazed, the other not. In the choirof York (143) the inner one is glazed. The east win-dow of the nave of Chipping-Norton Church, Oxford-shire, over the chancel-arch, is a fine specimen of thiskind of window: in this instance the outer plane isglazed. A little later in the style, one of the best examplesthat is anywhere to be found is the ante
An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . 143. Clear-story choir, York Cathedral,&.D. 1361—1403. PERPENDICULAR DOORWAYS. 173 flat-arched windows, are frequent in this style. Inrich churches there is sometimes a double plane oftracery, the one glazed, the other not. In the choirof York (143) the inner one is glazed. The east win-dow of the nave of Chipping-Norton Church, Oxford-shire, over the chancel-arch, is a fine specimen of thiskind of window: in this instance the outer plane isglazed. A little later in the style, one of the best examplesthat is anywhere to be found is the ante-chapel andtower of Merton College, Oxford. The very slow andgradual manner in which this chapel was built has. 144. Merton College doorway, 1424. 174 PERPENDICULAR DOORWAYS. been already mentioned: the fine tower-arches, andthe lower part of the walls, especially in the southtransept, belong to an earlier period, but the windowsand the north doorway (144) are of this period; andthere are few finer specimens of the style than thenorth end of this transept: it was re-dedicated in1424. The Doorways are frequently very rich, but havegenerally one prevailing form, which is a depressedarch within a square frame, and over this a label (145).
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