An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders (1881)
Rickman, Thomas, 1776-1841 · Oxford : J. H. Parker · leaf 158
ws of this style one almostuniversal distinction: from the straight side of the windowopening, if a shaft is added, it is mostly insular, and hasseldom any connexion with this side, so as to break it intofaces, though the shafts are inserted into the sides of thedoors, so as to give great variety… … e [Sir G. G. Scott found the pat-tern of the original tracery of thiswindow on one of the tiles in thechapter-house, (see Gleanings from Westminster Abbey. PI. IX. Oxford,1863, 8vo.). The present tracery ismuch more recent, and compara-tiyely poor.] 120 THE EARLY ENGLISH STYLE.
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