Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University Press · leaf 95
Fig. 145. CH. xix] ENGLISH CURVILINEAR 59 of three orders, with a combination of geometrical and Chichester curvilinear forms. The great order is set out like a geometrical window, with a centre-piece consisting of a spherical triangle supported on three pointed arches, but the sub-orders are all… … Fig. 146. and would form a perfect piece of tracery by itself ifthe other orders were omitted. This, which is animportant principle, was not always respected. The idea of a centre-piece which was commonlyobserved in geometrical windows prevailed also forsome time in the curvilinear windows which…
Architecture, Gothic
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