plate tracery - the simplest, earliest form of tracery, ca. 1300.
porch - a projecting, enclosed doorway, usually a side entrance located at the north and south transepts of a cathedral.
plate tracery
Tracery which uses thick areas of stone to separate glozed areas. The window may look as if it had been filled in with stone, then small openings cut through for the glass. The stone rather than the glass dominates the window.
Plate Tracery. An early form of tracery where decoratively shaped openings are cut through the solid stone in-filling in a window head (Top of a window)
Bar Tracery.
Plate tracery
quatrefoil
rose window
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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.
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.
Plate tracery, the earliest form, introduced c. 1200, has shapes cut through solid masonry. Bar tracery, introduced c. 1250, has patterns are formed by intersecting moulded ribwork continuing upwards from the mullions.
- 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, ...
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.
Varied techniques and patterns are given names such as plate tracery (built up in corsed layers like the framing walls), bar tracery (constructed of complex fragments of the total pattern), flowing tracery (seemingly freehand, curvilinear design, ...
In the earlier plate tracery, as in the clerestory at Chartres, a solid masonry wall is pierced by a series of openings.
When utilized in this way, such work is more specifically known as Bar Tracery, for its use of thin, decorative bars of stone. Larger window formations are known as Plate Tracery and designs upon solid surfaces without windows are called Blind ...
PLATE TRACERY: early thirteenth century Gothic tracery, preceding bar tracery and part of the Early English style, in which the lights are separated by flat pieces of stonework. POMMÉE CROSS: a cross with equal length arms that end in circles.
 See also: Gothic, Architecture, Tracery, Ornament, Church
  
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