bar tracery

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history of tracery

  • Gloucester Cathedral: cloisters
    In tracery

    …France a developed type of bar tracery with cusped circles (having pointed bars of stone projecting in toward the centre of the circle) was executed in the apse chapels of Reims Cathedral (prior to 1230). From about 1240 on, bar tracery became common, and it quickly exhibited increased lightness and…

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