A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 507
]ierlVc-teil Perpeiulii-ularstyle, wliieh lasteil longer than any other, and ismore eharacteristieally English. Besides window traeery, that of tiie four-teenth century parapets, es])eeially in France, isof great beauty (see Figs. 14 and 15). Late Perpcndicuhir work is sometimes en-riihed by Hor.d… … I:i -iiDicx Liu i;i h. Xuuthamp-TO.N.SHIRK; c. 14j0. Figure 19 is given to show the effectiveness ofwindow tracery when the shape of the mullionand of the curved bars which spring from themullions is what it .should be, namely, thin onthe face of the wall and very deeji in the thick-ness of the…
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