Gothic architecture in England : an analysis of the origin & development of English church architecture from the Norman conquest to the dissolution of the monasteries (1906)
Bond, Francis, d. 1918 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 528
EARLY BAR-TRACERY 47° its prototype may well be the west window of Binham ; the number of lights is the same, the skeleton framework of the tracery is the same, practically every detail is the same except that the circle in the window arch is not octofoliated, but contains nine foliated smaller… … the combinations of lancets, so beautiful Binham Aisle, West Window. and effective in Salisbury and else- where? The chief reason doubtless was that we wanted bigger windows, so as to make the churches less gloom}' ; the stained glass of the period being as yet thick and opaque. Another, it may be,…
Architecture, Gothic · Architecture · Church architecture
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