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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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93. Charlton-on-Otmoor, Oxon, c. 1240. Shewing a -window of two ligrhts with aquatrefoil in the head of plate-tracery,and a dripstone terminated hy thecharacteristic ornament called a mask,or a buckle. ^ This kind of tracery is called by Professor Willis plate tracery; being,in fact, a plate of stone pierced with holes: it is extensively used in EarlyFrench work. The more usual kind of tracery is called by Professor Willishar tracery, to distinguish it from the earher kind. These terms are soexpressive and convenient that they are now generally adopted. PROGRESS OF TRACERY, 129 the mullionsAt Woodstock, Oxfordshire, a windowon the south side is of the sameform, with a qua-trefoil introducedin the circle, andthe heads of thelower lights tre-foiled. AtMoretonPinckney, North-amptonshire,again, is the sameform, but mould-ed, and the solidsurface reducedso as to form ac-tual tracery. AtSolihull, War-wickshire, is thesame form en-riched withmouldings andcusps (94); atAston-le-Walls the
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94. Solihull, War-wicksliire, c. 1260.An early example of bar-tracery with orna-mented cusps. same form, with the openinglarger: at Middleton Cheney, Oxfordshire, the sameform; but the solid masonry is so much reduced as toform mere mullions, and this is actual tracery, thoughwithout cusps. At Glapthorn, Northamptonshire, and at Ashfordby, n See Glossary of Architecture, fourth edition, Oxford, 1860. Plates230, 231, and 233. 130 PROGRESS OF TUACERY. Leicestershire °, the opening is of the form called thevesica piscis^^ (95). At Melton Mowbray is the same

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