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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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PERPENDICULAR WINDOWS. arches being little more than two straight lines roundedat the angle of junction with the jambs. These latewindows had frequently great width in proportion totheir height (152), and were placed so near togetherthat the strengthof the buildingentirely depend-ed on the but-tresses. Thesewindows havingall been origi-nally filled withpainted glass, wehave rarely anopportunity oijudging of theproper effect ofthem; the glareof light whichwe now com-plain of havingbeen caused bythe destruction ot that material, 152, swinbrook, OxfordsMre, c. 1500.which was in- Perpendicular tracery fully carried out. tended to soften and partially to exclude it. The churchof Fairford, in Gloucestershire, affords a rare instanceof the painted glass having been preserved in all thewindows, and the effect is solemn and calm—very farfrom glaring; and it is remarkable that they impedethe light so little that a book may be read in any partof the church, which is seldom the case with modern
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PERPENDICULAR WIND 0 WS. 199 painted glass. The clerestories also are frequently al-most a sheet of glass merely divided by lighter orheavier mullions, thus offering a complete contrast to the small and distant openings so frequently found inEarly English and Decorated work. Square-headed,segmental, and other flat-arched windows, are frequentin this style. In rich churches there is sometimesa double plane of tracery, the one glazed, the othernot. In the choir of York (153) the inner one isglared. Theeast windowof the nave ofChipping-i^or-ton Church, Ox-fordshire, overthe chancel-arch, is a finespecimen of thiskind of win-dow: in thisinstance theouter plane isglazed. A little laterin the style, oneof the best ex-amples that isanywhere to befound is theante-chapel and tower of Merton College, Oxford.The very slow and gradual manner in which thischapel was built has been already mentioned: the

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