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 30
ry earliest form of completetracery, is the latest which the triforium admits. Fromthis point, and for this reason perhaps among others, thetriforium gradually goes out of use, and when it does re-appear with later forms of tracery, as in the Choir of Ely,the inappropriateness of the whole… … OF THE ORIGIN OF TRACERY. 9 and arches, designed to be open, the window essentiallyone of mullions and tracery-bars designed to be filled withglass. The shaft is indeed profusely employed as an orna-ment of traceried windows, but it is a mere ornament at-tached to the mullions, and11 very seldom…
Windows -- England · Architecture, Gothic
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