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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 232

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and the fenestelloe are filled withlong trefoil-headed piercings. It is manifest from theincongruous mixture of principles in this sumptuous win-dow that it cannot altogether approve itself to a criticalexamination, and it has at least one fault conspicuous atfirst sight, the great width and… … OF SUBARCUATED FLOWING WINDOWS. 137 nificent in the extreme, and as an architectural curiosityfew windows surpass it; it possesses also, if I mistake not,very great interest for the supporters of the symbolicaltheory. d. Suharcuated windows with. Flowing centre-pieces. We now come to windows in…

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