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 39
English period.And so also in the clearstory over the choir of the Abbey Church of St Alban, thecomposition is altogether Early English, but the moldings partake more of a Decoratedthan of an Early English character.t In this transition period it was customary to * See in Sharpfes VMndows, an… … construct many windows of more than two lights, having no other tracery than wouldbe produced by the intersection of the mullions in the window-head : a practice whichwas in some instances continued considerably later, and forms the basis of a numerousclass of Decorated windows. In some examples of…
Architecture, Gothic
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