Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 321
A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT the space between their pointed-arched heads and themain window-arch filled with circles or geometric pat-terns of stone work, the interest of the design being nowtransferred from the shapes of the openings to the shapesof the stone work (bar tracery. Fig. 305 h). Towardsthe… … FiG. 305 b. Bar Tracery, Meopham Church; c, Perpendicular Tracery, Northfleet. land and the great wheel-windows of France) reversecurves were introduced, giving a swaying movement tothe lines. In France this is continued through the nextperiod, giving it the name of Flamboyant from theflame-like…
Decoration and ornament -- History
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