Tracery
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TRACERY, a late coined word from "trace," track, Lat.
tracery - decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs
decoration, ornament, ornamentation - something used to beautify
fan tracery - the carved tracery on fan vaulting ...
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Architecture
1. A pattern of interlacing lines - esp. one in a stained glass window - often made of wood, stone or cast iron.
Tracery
A pattern of interlacing ribs carved or formed from stone and ornamenting a Gothic building, generally in the window and door areas as well as ceilings and staircases.
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Tracery : Located throughout Gothic cathedrals, tracery adds much to the distinctive style of Gothic ornament. The variety of Tracery patterns within these cathedrals is nearly endless.
Tracery
Branching, ornamental stonework, generally in a window, where it supports the glass; particularly characteristic of Gothic architecture.
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
Design in pieced patterns, in which the openings show dark on light from without and light on dark from within, referring to windows.
traffic plan ...
Tracery - Ornamental intersecting stonework used to support the glass.
Transept - The section that crosses the nave, usually separating the nave and the choir.
tracery - ornamental stonework most often seen supporting window glass in the form of trifoils and cinquefoils. Sometimes used merely as decoration on panels and moldings and then called 'blind' tracery.
TRACERY: decorative intersecting glazing bars in the upper portion of a window; most common in Gothic Revival styles. (IMAGE) ...
Tracery
Ornamental stone ribs in the upper parts of window and in circular windows.
Transept ...
tracery - The ornamental work decorating Gothic arched windows
transom window - The horizontal window pane(s) above a door
turret - A small, slender tower often located at the corner of a building or porch ...
TRACERY WINDOW A pointed arch window filled with curving stone mullions often seen on Gothic Revival style buildings.
TRANSOM LIGHT A flat, glass panel above a door, usually multi-paned.
Tracery
The open-work pattern within an opening, especially the upper part of a window. Blind tracery is applied to a solid wall.
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Intersecting rib-work in the upper part of a window or used decoratively on blank arches, on vaults etc.
Tracery: Geometrically constructed building ornament such as a foil found in the upper part of Gothic rose windows (fig.2, C). This type of stonework decoration became more complex during the High Gothic and Flamboyant phase.
Tracery
An ornamental arrangement of intersecting ribwork, usually in the upper part of a Gothic window, forming a pierced pattern.
Tray Ceiling ...
TRACERY Dividing bars, often forming ornamental patterns, in a Gothic window.
(illustration from Robert Burn, The Illustrated London Architectural, Engineering & Mechanical Drawing-Book of 1853, showing Decorated Gothic) ...
Tracery - An ornamental configuration of curved mullions in a Gothic sash.
TRACERY Carved stonework of interlaced and branching ribs, particularly the lace-like stonework in the upper part of a Gothic window.
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.
Tracery
a decorative, interlaced design (as in the stonework in Gothic windows).
Transept ...
Tracery
Fine decorative carving in either wood or stone found in the design of windows, vaults, screens and panels.
Transept ...
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.
Y-traceryA form of bar tracery, used c. 1300, which branches into a Y-shape.Yett
(Scots, lit. gate): Hinged openwork gate at a main doorway, made of iron bars alternately penetrating and penetrated.
bar-tracery: tracery consisting of stone ribs forming patterns.
basilica: originally a Roman judgement hall; later used to mean a building with arcades, aisles and clerestories.
Drop tracery - A border of pendant tracery on the Soffit of a Gothic arch
Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitoria, Batalha, Leira, Portugal
Drops - English term for Guttae.
Tracery
- an ornamental pattern of stonework supporting the glazing in a Gothic or early Renaissance window.
Tracery- Stone trace-like supports found on stained glass windows
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Ornamental tracery in the form of a five petaled flower.
CLERESTRY
The upper storey walls of the nave of a church, pierced by high windows.
Flamboyant tracery at Limoges Cathedral.
The Flamboyant Arch is one that is drafted from four points, the upper part of each main arc turning upwards into a smaller arc and meeting at a sharp, flame-like point.
cinquefoil Ornamental tracery in the form of a flower with five symmetrical petals. clerestory From "clear story." The uppermost level of nave walls, usually containing windows.
Soon this clerestory became an entire window, filled with tracery and stained glass that conferred a new luminosity on the interior.
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.
Pointed windows with decorative tracery
Grouped chimneys
Pinnacles
Flat roofs with Battlements, or gable roofs with parapets
Leaded glass
Quatrefoil and clover shaped windows
Oriel windows ...
Fan vaulting: A decorative and intricate form of tracery in which the ribs of a Vault arch out in a concave fan pattern.
Fillet: Delicate adornment strips applied to shafts and archways
Finial: An ornamental capping placed on the top of spires ...
fanlight - a semicircular or fan-shaped window with radiating members or tracery set over a door or window; may or may not be operable [see transom]
fenestration - the pattern of windows in a building ...
Rose Window - Round window in a frame of heavy tracery radiating out like the spokes of a wheel, and containing stained glasses.
Rotunda - Round building, sometimes enclosed in a colonnade ;also a round room ...
a projecting point forming a leaf shape in the tracery of a gothic door-arch or window-head
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Look at them superficially with the ordinary casual glance, and you would think it an erasure, and not tracery. Fine craftsmanship is all about you, but you might not notice it.
Decorated Gothic (1275-1375) - aka Geometric, Curvilinear, and Flamboyant - These terms describe primarily the fanciful tracery and ornamentation found in the window heads during this time.
Curvilinear window tracery, in all its suave grace, has taken the place of the fine and vigorous forms as of Netley, advanced a stage beyond the prototypes of France.
The upper portion of the window within the arch was filled with tracery, consisting at first of geometrical patterns, then later of flowing patterns, ...
The upper row of windows in the mufraj usually comprise elaborate stucco tracery filled in with coloured glass (green, blue, red and yellow). At the top of the house are parapets, sometimes with arrow slits for defence. [hide description]
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TERRA-COTTA: fired but unglazed clay, used mainly for wall or roof covering and ornamentation THATCH: a roof covering of straw, reeds, or other vegetable material, held in place by stones, ropes, or poles, or interspersed with layers or mud TRACERY: ...
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