A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 620
Window, Fig. 10: Boyton Church,Wiltshire ; 1250. vaulting principle liad come to control the wholedesign, and tlie space beneath each wall archand between two buttresses was treated like agreat opening to be filled with glass ; but inEngland the wall still interested the builders,and a natui \\ w… … Window Fio 1 1hi bi umns and with no filling of any sort betweenthem. Figure 8 shows the 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 Fig. 9 compared with Fig. 6will…
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