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An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (1877)

Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford: J. Parker and Co. · leaf 190

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nselmsChapel, the contract for which (a.d. 1336) is extant. Many windows of this style, especially in the timeof Edward I., havethe rear arch orna-mented with cusps,with a hollow spaceover the head ofthe window in thethickness of thewall, between therear arch and theouter arch, as atPiddington,… … i66 DECORATED WINDOWS. Windows with flowing tracery, and those with reti-culated, or net-like forms (124), are in general some-what later than thegeometrical pat-terns ; at least, theydo not seem to havebeen introducedquite so early; butthey are very fre-quently contempo-raneous, and bothclasses…

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