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Medieval Church Window Tracery in England
Stephen Hart
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Description for Medieval Church Window Tracery in England
Paperback. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the extensive variety of decorative tracery patterns, crafted in stone, that characterise the windows of medieval churches in England. Num Pages: 154 pages, b/w illus, col pls. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; AMC; AMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 171 x 12. Weight in Grams: 488. 154 pages, b/w illus, col pls. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the extensive variety of decorative tracery patterns, crafted in stone, that characterise the windows of medieval churches in England. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; AMC; AMN. Dimension: 242 x 171 x 12. Weight: 488.
A comprehensive review of the wide and varied range of window tracery designs that emerged during the medieval period. While the terms used to describe the tracery of medieval church windows are familiar (Early English, Decorated, Perpendicular), there has been no really detailed attempt to examine it as a distinct, stylistic architectural form, agap which this book seeks to address. Based upon a visual catalogue of over 250 images of surviving types and styles from churches throughout England, it traces the progression of ideas and the continuity of motifs and themes intracery patterns from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, showing how different themes emerged within the main architectural styles; it also looks at the distinction between a window's architectural form and its tracery style, and describes the several different tracery techniques. The volume is completed with a detailed glossary. Stephen Hart is a retired architect, and the author of numerous works, including Flint Flushwork.
Product Details
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
154
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
358g
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843837602
SKU
V9781843837602
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50
Reviews for Medieval Church Window Tracery in England
A comprehensive, sophisticated and long overdue survey of the development of Gothic church window tracery.
CHURCH MONUMENTS
It will be a most useful vade mecum for the enthusiastic church visitor. [...] A comprehensive overview of English parochial tracery design.
ECCLESIOLOGY TODAY
Anyone interested in medieval windows will enjoy the great range of examples put forward and discussed by Hart, whose book is a timely reminder of the ingenuity and creativity of England's medieval masons.
JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HISTORIC BUILDING CONSERVATION
A perceptive, informative, beautifully written, and well-illustrated study of the topic.
SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS NEWSLETTER
In a methodical, clear and notably well-illustrated fashion (there are good plates of some 300 windows) it traces the evolution of tracery through the Lancet, Geometric, Curvilinear and Perpendicular styles.
BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY
The varieties of such stonework are splendidly analysed and illustrated.
Christopher Howse
DAILY TELEGRAPH
CHURCH MONUMENTS
It will be a most useful vade mecum for the enthusiastic church visitor. [...] A comprehensive overview of English parochial tracery design.
ECCLESIOLOGY TODAY
Anyone interested in medieval windows will enjoy the great range of examples put forward and discussed by Hart, whose book is a timely reminder of the ingenuity and creativity of England's medieval masons.
JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HISTORIC BUILDING CONSERVATION
A perceptive, informative, beautifully written, and well-illustrated study of the topic.
SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS NEWSLETTER
In a methodical, clear and notably well-illustrated fashion (there are good plates of some 300 windows) it traces the evolution of tracery through the Lancet, Geometric, Curvilinear and Perpendicular styles.
BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY
The varieties of such stonework are splendidly analysed and illustrated.
Christopher Howse
DAILY TELEGRAPH