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A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 507

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13 show the perfected Perpendicularstyle, which lasted longer than any other, and ismore characteristically English. Besides window tracery, that of the four-teenth century parapets, especially in France, isof great beauty (see Figs. 1-t and 1.5). Late Perpendicular work is sometimes en-riched by… … Tracery, Fig. Hi; Kushoex Im i;i h, Northamp-tonshirk; c. W.iO. Figure 19 is given to show the effectiveness ofwinilow tracery wlien the shajjc of tlie mullionand of the curved bars which spring from themullions is wiiat it should be, namely, thin onthe face of the wall and very deep in the…

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