Bar tracery - Tracery which is composed of thin stone elements rather than thick ones as in plate tracery The glass rather than the stone dominates when bar tracery is used. It gives a more delicate, web-like effect.
Bar tracery: A pattern formed by interlocking bars of stone within the arch of a Gothic window.
Blind tracery: Tracery adorning a wall or panel but not pierced through ...
Bar tracery with even upright divisions made by a horizontal transom or transoms.PantileRoof tile of curved S-shaped section.
Bar tracery : The dominant class of Tracery consisting of decorative patterns formed from stone bars..
Boss (Rib-boss) : Ornamental masonry strips used to conceal the breaks in vault work.
The tracery in windows is usually divided into two sections, plate tracery and rib or bar tracery, the latter rising out of the former, and entirely superseding it in the geometrical, flowing and rectilineal designs.
Bar Tracery. A form introduced into England about1250 comprising Intersecting rib-work made up of slender shafts, continuing the lines of the mullions of a window to a decorative mesh in the head of the window.
Bar tracery, that characteristic feature of later Gothic architecture, was an invention of the first architect of Reims. In the earlier plate tracery, as in the clerestory at Chartres, a solid masonry wall is pierced by a series of openings.
Blind tracery is applied to a solid wall. Plate tracery has a decorative pattern of shapes cut through a solid surface, while in bar tracery the patterns are formed by shaped intersecting bands of stonework.
- an ornamental pattern of stonework supporting the glazing in a Gothic or early Renaissance window.
Plate tracery is the earliest type and consists of holes cut into a wall or a solid block or plate of stone, bar tracery resembles a twisted metal ...
 See also: Tracery, Gothic, Architecture, Gothic arch, Frame
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