An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England : from the Conquest to the Reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders (1862)
Rickman, Thomas, 1776-1841, Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884, Le Keux, John Henry, 1812-1896, Cattermole, George, 1800-1868, Mackenzie, Frederick, 1787 or 8-1854, Jewitt, Thomas Orlando Sheldon, 1799-1869, Starling, William Francis, Hacker, C., 19th cent, Carter, James, 1798-1855, Wilkinson, W. S, Smith, C. B · Oxford ; London : John Henry and James Parker · leaf 416
lear that they are so early as the walls, for many practical reasonsmight occur to defer the windows, the tracery at least, till a laterperiod. However this may be, there seems to have been a ratherabrupt assumption of windows with geometrical tracery, much ofwhich, from the large size of the… … Window. Bayeus. Cathedral. magnificent wheels. In this particular we cannot compete vrith France.I am not certain that we havetwenty wheel windows in Eng-land, which, for size and tra-cery, can well be named; whilein most of the cathedrals inFrance there are one, oftentwo, and sometimes three ;…
