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Architecture: gothic and renaissance (1880)

Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger), 1830-1903 · New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 90

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tracery (temp. Henry III.) ; as,for example, in the windows of the choir, the greatcircular windows (technically termed rose-windows) atthe ends of the transepts, the windows of the chapter-house. Last, but not least, the splendid arcade which ANALYSIS : WINDOWS. 49 forms the trifoHum is filled… … Fig. 19.—The Triforium Arcade, Westminster Abbey. (120S).) and intricacy. In the earlier half of the century nonesave regular geometrical forms, made up of circles and seg-ments of circles, occur ; in other words, the whole designof the most elaborate wiijdow could be drawn with the G A E 50 GOTHIC…

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