Book Excerpt: The broach-spire now came into notice. It was added on to the square tower, and at the early part of this style was low in height, but gradually became taller.The circular-headed windows of the Normans gave place to the narrow-pointed lancets of the Early English. These admitted little light, and necessitated a greater number of windows, which were grouped into couplets or triplets.Geometrical.--The window, by the gradual process of piercing the vacant spaces in the window-head, carrying mouldings around the ...
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Book Excerpt: The broach-spire now came into notice. It was added on to the square tower, and at the early part of this style was low in height, but gradually became taller.The circular-headed windows of the Normans gave place to the narrow-pointed lancets of the Early English. These admitted little light, and necessitated a greater number of windows, which were grouped into couplets or triplets.Geometrical.--The window, by the gradual process of piercing the vacant spaces in the window-head, carrying mouldings around the tracery (or ornamental filling-in), and adding cusps (the point where foliations of tracery intersect), gave rise to Geometrical work.The earliest work of this kind is found in Westminster Abbey.Decorated.--The towers are made to appear lighter by the parapets being either embattled or pierced with elegant designs, and pinnacles placed on them.The broach-spires gave place to spires springing at once from the octagon. The buttresses are setRead More
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Very Good. Bound in publisher's orange cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Spine faded. Top edge gilt. viii, 427 pages): color illustrations. From the library of John Glenn, (1858-1950), of the prominent Baltimore family. Glenn was director of the Russell Sage Foundation, a noted philanthropist, and Johns Hopkins trustee.
