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Title: An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: Oxford: J. Parker and Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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p Sir Edward Smirke has shewn from the accounts published in the Win-chester volumes of the Archaeological Institute, 8vo., 1845, that this hallwas built between 1222 and 1235, but the original windows were lancetsonly, as may be seen on the northern side, where some of the jambs re-main in the wall. The windows of two lights with an open quatrefoil inthe head, are part of an alteration half a century later. The first personto call my attention to this was my lamented friend, M. Felix Verneith,author of the excellent history of S. Front de Perigueux, and the otherByzantine churches of Perigord. He visited the hall with me in 1851, andhe was one of the eminent French archaeologists who went with me to seeLincoln Cathedral, and who pronounced without hesitation that there is PROGRESS OF TRACERY. 133 opening in the general head above: it is only ne-cessary to reduce the quantity of solid masonry to
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Exterior. Interior.98. Side Windows in tlie Long Gallery at Bishops Palace, Wells,on the first floor. make this a good geometrical window. Windows oftwo lights, with a pierced quatrefoil in the head, are, no French work there, but that the date I gave to it was impossible. Atthat time the exact history of each part of that very important buildinghad not been made out, and I supposed the circular window at the northend to have been part of St. Hughs work, which it clearly is not. It wasthis window also that M. VioUet-le-Duc said could not be earlier than 1220,and he was right. The thorough examination of this building that hasnow been made removes all the difficulty. 134 FROGBESS OF TRACEFY. in fact, abundant in good Early English work of thesecond period The triforium arcade in the choir andtransept of Westminster Abbey (76), built between1245 and 1260, is a very rich example, with a doubleplane of ornament; the sub-arches are trefoiled, and inthe head there are foliated circles with

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