Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 75
d, in sharp perspective, thata change in character can be de-scribed. The most important devel-opment is in windows. Towardthe end of the Early Englishperiod, lancets had been groupedinto pairs, under a single hoodmoulding. The tympanum thusestablished had been pierced, pro-ducing what is known as… … FIG. 86.—CHAPTER HOUSE, WEST-MINSTER ABBEY. DECORATED GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE bar-tracery. Another change was the intro-duction of more freedom in the generaldesign of windows. These were sometimessquare headed, and of various proportionsof height to width. As time went on thegeometrical forms to which…
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