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 (1903)
Brandon, Raphael, 1817-1877, Brandon, J. Arthur (Joshua Arthur), 1822-1847 · Edinburgh, J. Grant · leaf 27
the origin of tracery in the heads of windows, its gradualdevelopment and successive changes, we shall endeavour to illustrate the severalmore prominently distinctive forms which at different periods it assumed : previouslyto entering upon an examination of the rules by which its construction may… … 12 ANALYSIS OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. our notice. In the early Normtm Edifices, and particularly in the small village Churches,the openings for the windows were small and remarkably narrow—indeed but littlemore than plain, round-headed slits pierced, at as great a height as possible abovethe ground,…
Architecture, Gothic
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