Medieval Church Window Tracery In England PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ...Wrington (83) has the long vesica in the fenestellae; the centre-piece is a circle, quatrefoiled and doublefoliated. The number of lights render this window, and Offord, more satisfactory in outline than any of the larger ones which we have hitherto mentioned; but in both the tracery is somewhat meagre. An objection similar to that made1 above to the east window at Raunds might at first sight be thought to lie against the five-light east window of Scottow church (84), Norfolk, where the subarcuations intersect, having a light common to the fenestellae, which are fine three-light compositions. It is manifest that such a design leaves even less room for the circular centre-piece than in the other example; but this very fact diminishes the objection; its prominence is so small, that it does not strike the eye as a centre-piece, nor call for the proportions of one. 'Oxfonl Sheets. 1 P. 25. A four-light window at Melton (85) deserves attentive observation for the rare use of the vesica as a centre-piece. It is very early, as in this case it is hardly possible to keep the lights and the figure from fusing together, and so producing Flowing lines. It is by no means uncommon to meet with figures retaining traces of a Geometrical shape, but one more adapted to the Flowing line than the circle or any other such regular figure. Thus in the magnificent east windows of Albrighton in Shropshire, and Gnosall in Staffordshire, (which are identical, except in the occurrence of a transom at Albrighton, ) a spherical square, ogeed at the bottom, is plainly described, though the actual subordination in mouldings extends only to the lines of subarcuation; the tracery still retains a prominent centre; the fenestellae are Divergent. At Granchester, and North..