A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1879)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 308
n two or morewere grouped together un-der one arch. These pierc-ings seldom followed thefigure of the space pierced,and very often, if not gene-rally, had different mould-ings from them; but thesystem of making the mul-lions branch off into circles, quatrefoils, and other geo-metrical figures above… … Chirlton-on-Otmoor, 0*on. 3oo defect was rapidly corrected, and it became one of themost marked and beautiful characteristics of the Deco-rated style. Bar-tracery begins in the later part of that style, andat first consists of foliated circles only, as in the cloistersand other parts of Salisbury…
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