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A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1902)

Fergusson, James, 1808-1886, Spiers, Richard Phené, 1838-1916, Kerr, Robert, 1823-1904 · London, J. Murray · leaf 393

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SH ARCHITECTURE. Part II. church decoration, it was impossible to resist the influence of the Frenchinvention! Like many other Continental forms it seems first to havebeen systematically employed at Westminster, when the choir wasrebuilt by Henry III., a.d. 1245-69, but even then it was used… … Lancet Window. Hereford Cathedral. (Cath.HbO employed it with great success. One of the earliest examples is thebeautiful circular window of the north transept at Lincoln. It, however,is still of the imperfect tracery of the early French examples. Thelines do not in all instances follow one…

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