A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 172
l. There can be noquestion that this tracery does lend itself to the effective display of stained glass, and the glass here issuperb. The Perpendicular is our exclusively English style and is much the most common form oftracery in our village churches. It therefore has associations which endear it… … Plate No. CVII. PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL. CIRCULAR WINDOWS, r. 1220. EE There are three circular windows in the gables over the great arches of the west front of PeterboroughCathedral. They may be better described as wheel windows than rose windows ; they belong to theperiod before tracery proper.…
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