A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 434
rly Decorated;Solihull Church,Warwickshire. The cusp is pieroe.I. and ends notin a point but in twn reversedspirals. — a r.are form. place it is to occupy inthe wall, vault, oi otiierconstruction, having care-fully cut beds and joints,and a face more or lesssmoothed to the generalsurface of the… … Cusp: Gothic Traceried Window: I-ate 14th Century (Notre Dame, Paris). AU the decorative eflfect being derived from pierced cusps.
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