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Many windows of this style, especially in the time of Edward I., have the rear arch ornamented with cusps, with a hollow space over the head of the window in the thickness of the wall, between the rear arch and the outer arch, as at Piddington, Oxfordshire (115). This feature was

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not continued in the Perpendicular style, when the arch usually has a wide and flat shallow moulding only.

Windows with flowing tracery, and those with reticulated, or netlike forms (116), are in general somewhat later than the geometrical patterns; at least, they do not seem to have been introduced quite so early; but they are very fre

116. St. Mary Magdalen Church, Oxford, c 1320.

quently contempo- shewing flowing tracery with cusps, of the variety raneous, and both

called reticulated, or net-like.

classes may often be found side by side in the same building, evidently erected at the same time. An early instance of this occurs at Stoke Golding, in Leicestershire, built between 1275 and 1290, as appears by an inscription still remaining: the windows have mostly

geometrical tracery, but several have flowing. Several churches in Northamptonshire have windows with tracery alternately geometrical and flowing. The same mixture occurs in the glorious churches of Selby Abbey, Yorkshire, and St. Mary's, Beverley. Bray Church, Berkshire, rebuilt between 1293 and 1300, also presents the same mixture. In some instances windows with geometrical tracery have the mouldings and the mullions covered with the ball-flower ornament in great profusion, even to excess: these examples occur chiefly in Herefordshire,

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as at Leominster (117); and in Gloucestershire, as in the south aisle of the nave of the Cathedral at Gloucester: they are for the most part, if not entirely, of the time of Edward II.

There is a very fine window, with reticulated tracery and richly moulded, in the south Iwall of the clois

ters at Westminster. No rule what

117. Leominster, Herefordshire, c. 1320,

a Good engravings of this church are published in Weale's Quarterly Papers.

ever is followed in the form of the arch over windows in this style; some are very obtuse, others very acute, and the ogee arch is not uncommon. The inner arch is also frequently of a different shape and proportions to the outer one: there is also frequently, as we have seen (p. 141), a series of open cusps hanging from it, called hanging foliation; this is an elegant feature of the Decorated style. It is more common in some

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parts of the country than in others: this feature seems to have taken the place of the inner plane of decoration, with tracery and shafts, of the Early

English style, as at Stone, Kent (91); and it disappears altogether in the succeeding style. Square-headed windows are very common in this style in many parts of the country, especially in Leicestershire and in

118. Dorchester, Oxfordshire, c. 1330,

Oxfordshire, as at Dorchester (118). This form of window is so convenient that it was never entirely discontinued, though more commonly used in houses and castles than in churches. Windows with a flat seg

mental arch are also frequently used in this style, as at Over, Cambridgeshire (119); and the dripstone, or projecting moulding over the window to throw off the wet, is sometimes omitted, especially in, domestic work. Circular windows are also a fine feature of this style, chiefly used at the ends of the transepts in large churches, or at

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the west end in small ones. A rare instance of an east window of this form occurs at Westwell, Oxfordshire. Occasionally they are used in side-chapels, as at Cheltenham (120).

The splendid rose-windows which are the glory of so many of the French cathedrals belong generally to this style, although they are also continued in the Flamboyant. In England they belong entirely to the Decorated style, and are never continued in the Perpendicular. The window at the end of the south transept of Lincoln is a very fine example: the one at the end of the south transept of Westminster Abbey is also still a fine

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example, although it has been badly restored. Mr. Scott has discovered the exact pattern of it in its original state on one of the tiles in the chapter-house".

Clear-story windows of this style are often small, and either circular with quatrefoil cusps, or trefoils or qua

b See "Gleanings from Westminster Abbey" for engravings of the window and the tile.

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