A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 507
. The peculiar decoration offan-vaulted roofs, in which ribs are suggested,though tiie construction is no longer rib vault-ing, but is solid in a single Shell of cut stone.(See under Vaulting.) Flowing Tracery. Tracery in windows, ga-bles, and surface panelling, which abounds inwaving lines into… … Trackby, Fig. 17; Rushden Church, Nokthamp-tonshire; o. 1450. iar geometrical forms prevail, such as circlesand triangles with curved sides, as distinguishedfrom Hiiwing or flamboyant tracery. Net Tracery. Gothic tracery, as of win-dows, in which the openings are of nearly thesame size and of…
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