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 56
of the triplet are trefoiled, the system of equilateraltriangles has been, nevertheless, kept in view, as is shown in Diagram (B.), wherethe centres for the curves are at the several points of the triangle. * See Parish Churches, Vol. I., pngc 51. t See Parish Churches, Vol. I., pages G5 and 17.… … A minute examination of numerous specimens of tracery, collected from all partsof England, has led us to form the conclusion that this same principle of the equilateraltriangle constitutes in them all the basis of their formation : in veiy many cases itstruth is undeniable, and it will not…
Architecture, Gothic
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