The six lateral windows, notable for their delicate tracery and ornaments, are separated by pilasters.

Glazing bars of windows in sash of varying widths are reminiscent of Gothic tracery, creating delicate divisions in the rich stained glass.

He built the groin vaults with wide arches and windows with tracery resting on delicate mullions.

The key precursor was a change in the construction of window tracery ; the replacement of old-fashioned plate-tracery ( in which the window openings look as if they have been punched out of a flat stone plate ) with the more delicate bar-tracery ( in which the stone elements separating the glazing panels within a window are constructed out of narrow carved mouldings, with rounded inner and outer profiles ).

These arches create a rich and lively effect when used for window tracery and surface decoration.

The high quality and elaborate nature of the church's decoration, particularly its mouldings and tracery, indicate a move away from the deliberate austerity of the early Cistercian churches towards the grandeur appropriate to a secular cathedral.

It is typified by the simpicity of its vaults and tracery, the use of lancet windows and smaller amounts of sculptural decoration than either Romanesque or later varieties of Gothic.

Increasing proliferation and elaboration of sculptural decoration and tracery and the emergence of more complex and decorative vaults marked the transition to Decorated Gothic ( late 13th-late 14th centuries ).

It was characterised by heavy massing, sparse use of tracery or sculptural decoration and an emphasis on polychrome patterning created through the use of different colours of brick and stone.

The carved tracery decoration in Gothic style ( including quatrefoils, fleurs-de-lis and rosettes ) by Huguet in the ambulatory forms a successful combination with the Manueline style in the arcade screens, added later by Mateus Fernandes.

The ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work.

Trefoil is a term in Gothic architecture given to the ornamental foliation or cusping introduced in the heads of window-lights, tracery, panellings, etc., in which the center takes the form of a three-lobed leaf ( formed from three partially overlapping circles ).

One of the earliest examples is in the plate tracery at Winchester ( 1222 – 1235 ).

There is no triforium, but a high clerestory with wide two-light windows, with simple tracery like those in the nave-aisles and throughout the church, which give sufficient light.

The type of tracery that evolved to fill these spaces is known in England as Geometric Decorated Gothic and can be seen to splendid effect at many English and French Cathedrals, notably Lincoln and Notre Dame in Paris.

This south window is one of the largest examples of curvilinear tracery seen in medieval architecture.

Curvilinear tracery is a form of tracery where the patterns are continuous curves.

This window is also interesting and unique in that the focus of the tracery was shifted away from the center of the circle and instead placed in other sections.

The style of the chapter house is of the early Decorated Period where geometric patterns were used in the tracery of the windows, which were wider than those of early styles.

At its west end is the Great West Window, known as the ' Heart of Yorkshire ' which features flowing tracery of the later decorated gothic period.

It is unique among the surviving crosses in having a triangular plan, and a taller and more slender profile with a lower tier entirely covered with diapering, instead of the arch-and-gable motif with tracery which appears on both the others ; and canopied statues surmounted by a slender hexagonal pinnacle.

Of these, one of the most impressive is the Stargarder Tor ( pictured ), with its characteristic gable-like shape and the filigree tracery and rosettes on the outer defense side.

The facade is dominated by a large lancet window with wood tracery.

Diapering ( covering areas of flat colour with a tracery design when depicting arms ) is not considered a variation of the field ; it is not specified in blazon, being a decision of the individual artist.

There is a 15th century chancel screen, though without its original tracery, with crudely re-painted figures below.

The five-light east window is 13th century but its present intersecting tracery is a modern replacement.

The tower of the church is decorated with blank tracery windows.

The Decorated Gothic east window is 14th-century and has reticulated tracery with ogees.

Aside from his rather bold vaults, the peculiarities of his work can also be seen in the design of pillars ( with classic, bell-shaped columns which were almost forgotten by High Gothic ), the ingenious dome vault of new St Wenceslaus chapel, the undulating clerestory walls, the original window tracery ( no two of his windows are the same, the ornamentation is always different ) and the blind tracery panels of the buttresses.

The inner court is surrounded by elaborate round arches with slender mullions and plurilobed tracery.

The rose windows of early-and high-Gothic cathedrals, such as the example in the north transept of Laon Cathedral ( 1170's ) or the west facade at Chartres ( c. 1210 ), also employed plate tracery.

This is but one example of the influence of Islamic forms of architecture in the development of gothic tracery.

This left the lower features, such as the main entrance, Neo-Classical, while the rest is Neo-Gothic, for example, the large windows over the doorway features Gothic pointed arches and tracery.

The parish church of St Augustine has an 88-foot tower, four stories, with no pinnacles or fancy tracery on the windows, giving the tower a slender, austere look compared to the medieval Somerset towers of churches in nearby Taunton, for example.

We can admire the progression of the constructive stages, taking as an example the tracery of windows and tryphorium.

More of the wall surface than ever before was pierced by windows ( see for example the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris ) and buildings were often given lace-like tracery screens on the exterior to hide the bulk of load bearing wall elements and buttresses ( such as at Strasbourg Cathedral or the Church of St Urbain in Troyes ).

The remodelling work was completed in 1949 when Murrary Easton replaced the Gothic tracery of the windows with a simpler design in the style of the medieval Hall.

The pointed arch lent itself to elaborate intersecting shapes which developed within window spaces into complex Gothic tracery forming the structural support of the large windows that are characteristic of the style.

In many Gothic churches, particularly in France, and in the Perpendicular period of English Gothic architecture, the treatment of vertical elements in gallery and window tracery creates a strongly unifying feature that counteracts the horizontal divisions of the interior structure.

Eclectic in style ( with Gothic and Perpendicular characteristics-the latter attributed partly from his destruction of the windows of the chapel of St Mary's college in order to reuse that tracery for his west front ) his work soon proved to be substandard ( as had his previous work on the Chapter House ).

Whatever lancet windows may have been in the chancel south wall were replaced with three two-light Decorated Gothic windows with reticulated tracery, and a double piscina was added at the same time.

In 1442 the north transept was rebuilt with five-light Perpendicular Gothic north and east windows with panel tracery.

St. Nicholas ' chancel, showing 14th-century Decorated Gothic east window with reticulated tracery and 14th-century roof.

There were extensive gardens and a lot of money was spent on them: The house itself consists of sixty rooms, and the sum of, we understand £ 20, 000 in round numbers, has been expended so far upon the building ,-Upon entering the grand hall, through the massive oaken doorway, replete with medieval decorations, the visitor finds that ‘ The Priory ’ has been erected in a style of magnificence not very generally met with – it is floored en mosaique, in walnut and oak ; the peculiar grotesque spirit of the Gothic style is not permitted to run riot through the rich oak carving, while that more beautiful element, tracery enters largely into the interior ornamentation – the oak painted ceiling richly stuccoed and the polished armour shields an banners that hang around with the erect figures in full suits of armour ; the wide staircase in massive oak – the great doorways leading to the drawing – room at one side and to the library at the other – the rich and mellow light that comes through the beautiful stained glass window that forms the upper portion of the Gothic entrance, and through the lancet shaped sashes – all this bespeak a profuse liberality and taste of order.

A rose window ( or Catherine window ) is often used as a generic term applied to a circular window, but is especially used for those found in churches of the Gothic architectural style and being divided into segments by stone mullions and tracery.

All his spare time was spent in sketching and making careful measured drawings, and classifying medieval architecture, at first through its window tracery, into the sequence that he labelled " Norman " " Early English ", " Decorated English " and " Perpendicular English ", names that have remained in use, which he was already employing in his diaries in 1811 ; he gained a knowledge of architecture which was very remarkable at a time when little taste existed for the beauties of the Gothic styles.

Stained glass and Decorated Gothic | Decorated tracery at Wells Cathedral

The Gothic style arose largely from the introduction of large windows, often filled with stained glass and subdivided by decorative stone tracery.

The final permutation of the English tradition, and the furthest removed from contemporary continental styles, was Perpendicular Gothic ( mid 14th-early 16th centuries ), named for its emphasis on continuous vertical lines and the grid patterns of its tracery.

Like many Gothic churches, the Church of the Holy Trinity uses limestone for its foundation and window tracery, as well as sandstone, brick, and wood.