An analysis of Gothic architecture. Illustrated by a series of upwards of seven hundred examples of doorways, windows, mouldings, roofs, arches, crosses, panels, buttresses, seats, screens, etc., and accompanied with remarks on the several details of an ecclesiastical edifice (1903)
Brandon, Raphael, 1817-1877 · Edinburgh, J. Grant · leaf 46
ry-bar following the same curve, while an inverted arch, foliated, is placed within the space thus formed. This is a no less beautiful than peculiar feature of the finest Perpendicular tracery : it prevails in William of Wykeham’s work in Winchester Cathedral, and is also exemplified in the… … of an embattled tracery-transom, see Section I. Perpendicular, Plate 18. A rich, though perhaps a scarcely legitimate, effect was sometimes produced by cusping the lights of the upper series at the foot as well as at the head, and uniting them with those of the lower series, without any intervening…
Architecture, Gothic
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