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GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE.
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forms to decorate both what was open and what was chap. hi.
solid. They have been enabled to do so, by the com-
prehensive nature of wicker-work, embracing both
the basket and the cage. In fact, every basket has
for its basis a piece of cage-work in the ribs, round
which the twigs are wattled; and the form of these
ribs being visible in the closest piece of basket-work,
the architect who assumed wicker-work as his proto-
type, was justified in decorating any piece of flat and
unbroken stone-work with tracery, executed in relief,
representing those ribs. On this occasion, the same
design has been adopted, as in the tracery of some of
the windows ; most commonly that of the window of
Westminster Hall (Plate XXIV.); and the same
arrangement has been pursued, as to the mouldings
and their subordinations ; the decoration consisting of
a half mullion as it projects from the glass, in some
cases with strong projection, in others with a mere
indication. Plate XXXI. shews an example of this Fiatexxxi.
arrangement in the gateway of Beverly Minster; the
sides and summit of which are decorated with crocketed
boughs, such as those last mentioned, disposed in
various modes, now easily understood. The solid mass
of stone-work immediately above the doorway, is
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forms to decorate both what was open and what was chap. hi.
solid. They have been enabled to do so, by the com-
prehensive nature of wicker-work, embracing both
the basket and the cage. In fact, every basket has
for its basis a piece of cage-work in the ribs, round
which the twigs are wattled; and the form of these
ribs being visible in the closest piece of basket-work,
the architect who assumed wicker-work as his proto-
type, was justified in decorating any piece of flat and
unbroken stone-work with tracery, executed in relief,
representing those ribs. On this occasion, the same
design has been adopted, as in the tracery of some of
the windows ; most commonly that of the window of
Westminster Hall (Plate XXIV.); and the same
arrangement has been pursued, as to the mouldings
and their subordinations ; the decoration consisting of
a half mullion as it projects from the glass, in some
cases with strong projection, in others with a mere
indication. Plate XXXI. shews an example of this Fiatexxxi.
arrangement in the gateway of Beverly Minster; the
sides and summit of which are decorated with crocketed
boughs, such as those last mentioned, disposed in
various modes, now easily understood. The solid mass
of stone-work immediately above the doorway, is