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Art in Great Britain and Ireland (1913)

Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 73

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ward, 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… … FIG. 86.—CHAPTER HOUSE, WEST-MINSTKR .\BHi:V. DECORATED GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE bar-tracery. Another change was the intro-duction of more freedom in the general design of windows. These were sometimes square headed, and of various proportions of height to width. As time went on the geometrical forms to…

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