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 155
steps by whichthe two-light Geometrical window with the circle in thehead was converted into the two-light Reticulated. Wehave seen that the substitution of the ogee for the simplearch1, round or pointed, is the essence of the style; this is It i- clear that a circle may be con- derived from a… … OF RETICULATED TRACERY. 91 first applied to the lights, which become ogee, the circleremaining perfect, and the apices of the lights being madeto flow into its circumference, as they best may, which iseffected with different degrees of skill in different examples ;we find this stage at Icklesham,…
Windows -- England · Architecture, Gothic
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