A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1845)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884, Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. sgn, Fenwick, Isabella. ins, Reed, Henry. sgn, Wordsworth Collection · Oxford, J. H. Parker · leaf 432
nd some of the subordinateparts are modified, as the style gradu-ally emerges from the Decorated.Small circles, quatrefoils, and squaresare not very unusual, but no examples of large windows ofthese shapes can be referred to, except those in the transepts ofWestminster abbey*^, and these are… … •^ These are square windows com-prising circles, with the tracery arrangedto suit the latter figure. There are manywindows in the churches on the Con-tinent, especially at the ends of the tran-septs and nave, which have large circles in the heads, formed hy a preponderatingmullion, to which the…
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