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A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 500

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The peculiar decoration offan-vaulted ixiiits, in which ribs are suggested,though the construction is no longer rib vault-ing, but is solid in a single Shell of cut stone.(See under Vaulting.) Flowing Tracery. Tracery in windows, ga-bles, and surface panelling, which abounds inwaving lines into… … Trai ERV, Fig. 17; Eushden Church, Northamp-tonshire; c. liJO. iar geometrical forms prevail, such as circlesand triangles with curved sides, as distinguishedfrom flowing or flamboyant tracery. Net Tracery. Gothic tracery, as of win-dows, in which the openings are of nearly thesame size and of…

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