A B C of Gothic architecture;
A B C of Gothic Architecture is a 1900 London and Oxford primer by John Henry Parker, an Oxford antiquary, written as an introduction to Gothic building forms for the general reader and students. The four pictures are engraved architectural details: a round-arched Romanesque-style window with a central column, a tall Gothic tracery window with diamond-pattern glazing, carved zigzag and capital mouldings, and a sectional elevation of a church bay with a clerestory window above a triforium arcade. A designer could draw on their pointed arches, cusped tracery and stone capitals for medieval ornament, window motifs and architectural linework.
