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

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 613

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Window, Fig. 10: Boyton Church,WlLTSHlKE ; 1250. vaulting principle had come to control the wholedesign, and the sjMce beneath each wall archand between two buttresses was treated lil<e agreat opening to be filled with glass; but inEngland the wall still interested the builders,and a natural way… … WiNDOW, Fig. V2: The Bkoletto, Monza; c. 1270. umns and witli no filling of any sort betweenthem. Figure 8 shows tlie same principle, ofsomewhat later date and with still more refinedforms. About the middle of the thirteenth centurythe traeeried window had assumed the most im-portant place, and…

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