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shire, a window on the south side is of the same form, with a quatrefoil introduced in the circle, and the heads of the lower lights trefoiled. At Moreton Pinckney, Northamptonshire, again is the same form but moulded, and the solid surface

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Solihull, War

wickshire, is the same form

enriched with mouldings and cusps. At Aston le Walls the same form,

with the opening larger. At

Solihull, Warwickshire, c. 1260.

Middleton Cheney, Oxfordshire, the same form; but the solid masonry is so much reduced, as to form mere mullions, and this is actual tracery, though without cusps.

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At Glapthorn, Northamptonshire, Ashfordby, and Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, the opening is of the form called the "vesica." At Greetwell, near Lincoln, is a lozenge in the head, quite plain.

At Wimborne Minster, Dorsetshire, is a remarkable window of three lancet lights, with a quatrefoil opening over each light, enclosed under the dripstones which are carried over each light separately, though the moulding is continued from one to the

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Winchester, is

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foil-headed openings with a quatrefoil in the head, these are moulded and getting nearer to bar tracery. This window also shews what is called a double plane of ornament, the inner plane being much lighter and more enriched than the outer one.

Stone Church, Kent, c. 1250.

At Strixton, Northamptonshire, is a triple lancetwindow at the east end, with a quatrefoil opening, and also three sunk quatrefoil panels in the gable, (see p. 145.), these sunk panels are not uncommon

in Early English work, and it is only necessary to draw them a little more close together to enclose them under one arch, and pierce them to form good tracery, this is done in the next class, as at Raunds,

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