An essay on the origin and development of window tracery in England; with nearly four hundred illustrations (1851)
Freeman, Edward Augustus, 1823-1892 · Oxford, London : J.H. Parker · leaf 127
es of ordinary tracery; it is simply a wheel-windowtransferred whole to the head of an arched one. Nowthe wheel-window has a quite distinct origin and devel-opment from those of the common form, and will con-sequently meet with a separate consideration. I shalltherefore now only briefly refer to a… … 80 O F COMBINATION IN GEOMETRICAL WINDOWS. 73 tracery in the head, occur in Exeter Cathedral, and atTemple Balsall (79). The latter example is one of singu-lar elegance; the wheel has twelve diverging rays, endingin trefoil arches; that at Exeter has but six, and isaltogether less skilfully…
Windows -- England · Architecture, Gothic
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