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Architecture: gothic and renaissance (1880)

Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger), 1830-1903 · New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 88

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Fig. 16.—Lancet Window.(12th Century.) ANALYSIS : WINDOWS. 47 Yoik Minster. A common arrangement in designing sucha group was to make the central light the highest, andto graduate the height of the others. It after a time be-came customary to render the opening more ornamentalby adding pointed… … Fig, 1 —Two-light Window. (13th Century.) resembling a trefoil leaf. Sometimes two cusps wereadded on each side. The head is, in the former case, saidto be trefoiled—in the latter, cinqfoiled. When two windows were placed close together it beganto be customary to include them under one outer arch,…

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