An Essay On the Origin And Development of Window Tracery in England With Nearly
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In some instances, as in three-light windows at Yalding, Kent, and Marston, Oxon, the lights have simple-pointed arches, but in the Glouces- tershire type they are more appropriately ogeed. Of this kind are several windows in Dursley Church and the west window of Coaley, of three lights, and many others in that neighbourhood, several in Monmouthshire, and the west window at Brewood, Staffordshire (43). And with these we may fairly rank a very fine window in the south transept of Bristol Cathedr...al (44), which presents the same outline better worked ; but each of the ogee- headed compartments is filled up with a Reticulated pat- tern of two lights, so that window is actually of si\ lights, of the same width as the batement-lights, just as in pure Alternate tracery. As the true Alternate tracery is now and then subar- 194 OF CONTINUOUS TRACERY. cuated, we might not unnaturally look for the same modi- fication in windows of this last type, in which, as the general effect of the Supermullioned class so decidedly pre- vails, it could hardly fail to be at least as appropriate as it is to the latter.
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