Illustrations of geometric tracery, from the paneling belonging to Carlisle Cathedral

Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874 architect · 1842 · London : Published by Thomas and William Boone, 29, New Bond Street, and the author, Manor House, Kentish Town · 19 pictures

Robert William Billings, an architect, published this London volume in 1842 to record the geometric tracery carved in the paneling of Carlisle Cathedral for architects and students of Gothic design. The pictures are measured line drawings of tracery panels, each shown in grey shading over construction circles and arcs. A designer could take the repeating trefoil, quatrefoil and interlaced arc patterns as ready-made Gothic motifs, along with the compass geometry used to lay them out.

Carlisle Cathedral · Decoration and ornament, Gothic · Architecture, Gothic · Church architecture · Carlisle Cathedral (Carlisle, England) · Tracery (Architecture) -- England -- Carlisle · Decoration and ornament, Gothic -- England -- Carlisle · Architecture -- England -- Carlisle -- Details · Church architecture -- England -- Carlisle

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