INTERSECTING TRACERY: a form of window tracery, characteristic of Early English work of the mid to late thirteenth century, typified by a branching of each mullion at the springing level into a Y and the subsequent intersection of these branches.
A style of English Gothic between 1290 - 1350. Characterised by the Intersecting tracery and Reticulated tracery found in church windows of the period.
See also: Early English, Geometric Style, Perpendicular Style Early Englishsearch for term ...
Intersecting Tracery. Tracery in which each mullion of a window branches out into two curved bars in such a way that each one of them is drawn with the same radius from a different center.
1310, which uses simple forms, especially circles, chiefly foiled; intersecting tracery, used c.
 See also: Tracery, Architecture, Gothic, Moulding, Nave
  
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