GOTHIC WINDOW: a triple arched window where the centre pane is taller than the sides. Most commonly seen in churches. (IMAGE) ...
FOIL In Gothic window tracery, the small arc openings separated by cusps. The number of foils is described as trefoil (3), quatrefoil (4), and cinquefoil (5).
FRENCH WINDOW A window that opens to the floor in two hinged parts.
trahere, to draw; the term given in architecture (French equivalents are reseau, remplissage) to the intersecting ribwork in the upper part of a Gothic window; applied also to the interlaced work of a vault, or on walls, ...
The eastern end is square and is filled by an enormous Gothic window with Geometric tracery.
Internally, there is an emphasis upon length and horizontality.
Intermittently during the years from 1905 to 19007, Hunter redesigned the Inn's Gothic windows by replacing the glass with Glasgow School and Viennese Secessionist-inspired leaded glass designs.
I highly commended it, I think it was the smallest house I ever saw; with the queerest gothic windows (by far the greater part of them sham), and a gothic door, almost too small to get in at.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context ...
Gothic window above entry, one-story porch with flattened, Gothic arches. The first appearance of picturesque (asymmetrical and unpredictable) floor plans, indicating the rise of the Romantic Era in America.
Gothic Revival
English romanticism influenced this style, marked by Gothic windows and vaulted roofs.
Spanish Eclectic
This style has details from Moorish, Byzantine, Gothic, and Renaissance styles.
tracery - elaborate ornamental pattern-work in stone subdividing the upper part of a Gothic window.
trefoil - three-leafed as in Gothic tracery design.
vergeboard - see bargeboard.
Tracery - Ornamental, intersecting, linear pattern in the upper part of a Gothic window, screen, panel or vault.
Transept - Transverse arms of a cruciform plan church, usually dividing the nave from the chancel.
tracery : Ornament of ribs, bars, etc., in panels or screens, as in the upper part of a Gothic window. Branching, ornamental stonework, generally in a window, where it supports the glass; particularly characteristic of Gothic architecture.
An ornamental arrangement of intersecting ribwork, usually in the upper part of a Gothic window, forming a pierced pattern.
Tray Ceiling ...
a decorative, interlaced design (as in the stonework in Gothic windows).
Transept
a cross arm in a Christian church, placed at right angles to the nave.
in panels or screens, as in the upper part of a Gothic window. transept A structure that forms the arms of a T - or cross-shaped church.
TRACERY
Carved stonework of interlaced and branching ribs, particularly the lace-like stonework in the upper part of a Gothic window.
TRANSEPT
The transverse part of a church with a cruciform or cross-shaped floor plan.
 See also: Architecture, Gothic, House, Vault, Ornament
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