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	Tracery - LoveToKnow 1911
		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.
		The tracery decorating the vault of Gothic work began on the introduction of the fan vault at Gloucester (see Vault); it was only a surface decoration, both rib and web being cut out of the same block of stone, and it received further development in the various phases which followed.
		In tabernacle work the tracery is purely of a decorative character, copied in miniature from the mullions, arch-moulds and crockets of Gothic work.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Tracery (932 words)

	FanFiction.Net - Dictionary & Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The term bar is very often loosely used for measure, i.e., for such length of music, or of silence, as is included between one bar and the next; as, a passage of eight bars; two bars' rest.
		Bar shot, a double headed shot, consisting of a bar, with a ball or half ball at each end; -- formerly used for destroying the masts or rigging in naval combat.
		Kindred within the prohibited degree, for example, is a bar to a marriage between the persons related; but the fact that A is married, and cannot therefore marry B, is a circumstance which operates as a bar as long as it subsists; for without it the parties might marry.
	www.fanfiction.net /dictionary.php?word=bar (1193 words)

	Gothic Art and Architecture - ninemsn Encarta
		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.
		In bar tracery, by contrast, a single window is subdivided into two or more lancets by means of long thin lines of stone, known as mullions.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562615/Gothic_Art_and_Architecture.html (1298 words)

	Gothic Art and Architecture - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		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.
		In bar tracery, by contrast, a single window is subdivided into two or more lancets by means of long thin lines of stone, known as mullions.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761562615___2/Gothic_Art_and_Architecture.html (2020 words)

	FanFiction.Net - Dictionary & Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Plate tracery, common in Italy, consists of a series of ornamental patterns cut through a flat plate of stone.
		Bar tracery is a decorative pattern formed by the curves and intersections of the molded bars of the mullions.
		Window tracery is imitated in many decorative objects, as panels of wood or metal either pierced or in relief.
	www.fanfiction.net /dictionary.php?word=Tracery (163 words)

	AllRefer.com - tracery (Architecture) - Encyclopedia
		tracery, bands or bars of stone, wood, or other material, either subdividing an opening or standing in relief against a wall and forming an ornamental pattern of solid members and open spaces.
		Such bar tracery (e.g., in the cathedral at Reims) prevailed in both France and England by the first half of the 13th cent., creating circles, trefoils, quatrefoils, and other varied geometrical designs.
		Tracery came gradually to be used also for ornamenting buttresses, gables, spires, interior walls, and choir screens.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/tracery.html (460 words)

	bar@Everything2.com
		Its use is primarily within the scientific community (the pascal is a SI unit while the bar is not) but is slowly spreading to meteorology (and thus everyday use).
		One bar is the force of 1000,000 newtons acting on one square meter (which is a rather inconveniently large unit to measure and deal with).
		Bar shoe Far., a kind of horseshoe having a bar across the usual opening at the heel, to protect a tender frog from injury.
	www.everything2.com /index.pl?node=bar (1541 words)

	RAYONNANT STYLE. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In this period many of the great cathedrals were under construction; the builders became bolder and more proficient, emphasizing in every way the vertical elements of the structure.
		Light and soaring structural skeletons were erected, reducing the size of all supporting members; the enlargement of windows resulted in a drastic reduction of wall surfaces.
		Bar tracery, displaying elaborate geometrical patterns, supplanted plate tracery.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/ra/Rayonnan.html (146 words)

	GOTHIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The head of the window is filled with a tracery design that has the effect of a cutout.
		The masterpiece of the style, the chapel of King's College (begun 1443), Cambridge, achieves a majestic homogeneity through the use of the new fan vaulting, the fan-shaped spreading panels of which are in complete accord with the rectangular panels of the walls and windows.
		The earliest monument in the flamboyant style, the large screen (1388) with traceried gables that surmounts the triple fireplace in the ancient Palais des Comtes at Poitiers, foreshadows the pieced decorative gables on the exteriors of the flamboyant-style churches.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..go070200.a (4389 words)

	tracery. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		bands or bars of stone, wood, or other material, either subdividing an opening or standing in relief against a wall and forming an ornamental pattern of solid members and open spaces.
		The French developed that type into the elaborate, flamboyant tracery of the 15th cent., which produced windows and architectural adornment of amazing lightness and intricacy, as in the cathedral at Rouen and in the wood choir stalls of Amiens.
		the severe tracery of the Perpendicular style, with its closely spaced verticals, was dominant in both windows and wall adornment, providing a contrast to the elaborate fan vaulting, as in the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster and King’s College Chapel, Cambridge.
	www.bartleby.com /65/tr/tracery.html (412 words)

	Chapter Bankable <i>to</i> Bar of B by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		A double bar marks the end of a strain or main division of a movement, or of a whole piece of music; in psalmody, it marks the end of a line of poetry.
		The term bar is very often loosely used for measure, i.e., for such length of music, or of silence, as is included between one bar and the next; as, a passage of eight bars; two bars' rest.
		To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; — sometimes with up.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1193/22036/7.html (425 words)

	TRACERY - Online Information article about TRACERY
		bar tracery, the latter rising out of the former, and entirely superseding it in the geometrical, flowing and rectilineal designs.
		design of the window, and led to the development of geometrical tracery, in which the bars or ribs are all about equidistant from one another.
		rose windows which were introduced, generally speaking, in the transepts of the cathedrals; the tracery of these follows on the lines of those of the windows, changing from geometrical to Decorated and afterwards to flamboyant.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /TOO_TUM/TRACERY.html (2065 words)

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		The main characteristic of this era is the ‘bar tracery'.
		Artistic invention was the main focus however, and windows became the focal point of a cathedral with their elaborate and ornate traceries.
		Above is an example of bar tracery on a window in Lincoln Cathedral.
	members.tripod.com /~gothic_architecture/decorated.html (243 words)

	bar - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		bars, the transverse ridges on the roof of the mouth of a horse.
		After c.1600, however, this was popularly assumed to mean the bar in a courtroom, which was the wooden railing marking off the area around the judge's seat, where prisoners stood for arraignment and where a barrister (q.v.) stood to plead.
		Bars are especially common near the mouths of rivers or estuaries.
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/bar (2984 words)

	Stained Glass
		The glass was held together by two methods: bar tracery or plate tracery.
		Bar tracery is where thin stone bars were used to form a decorative pattern within the window opening and then the glass was inserted into the pattern.
		Plate tracery did not use metal bars, but rather the masonry of the building to form the pattern into which the glass was placed.
	www.kent.k12.wa.us /staff/CarlSpears/middle_ages/stained_glass.html (366 words)

	Castle Terms
		Bar securing the castle gate on the inside; could be drawn back into the porter of gateward’s lodge before opening the gate.
		The vertical bar between the lights of a window.
		Horizontal bar of wood or stone dividing a window or across the top of a doorway.
	www.richard111.com /castle_terms.htm (3174 words)

	Geona.com - bar - English Explanatory Dictionary
		A double bar marks the end of a strain or main division of a movement, or of a whole piece of music; in psalmody, it marks the end of a line of poetry.
		a kind of horseshoe having a bar across the usual opening at the heel, to protect a tender frog from injury.
		a double headed shot, consisting of a bar, with a ball or half ball at each end; -- formerly used for destroying the masts or rigging in naval combat.
	www.geona.com /dictionary?q=bar (1173 words)

	Gothic Art and Architecture
		The use of a standard module consisting of an upright traceried rectangle, which could be used for wall paneling and window tracery alike, resulted in an extraordinary unity of design in church interiors.
		The masterpiece of the style, the chapel of King’s College (begun 1443), Cambridge, achieves a majestic homogeneity through the use of the new fan vaulting, the fan-shaped spreading panels of which are in complete accord with the rectangular panels of the walls and windows.
		The earliest monument in the flamboyant style, the large screen (1388) with traceried gables that surmounts the triple fireplace in the ancient Palais des Comtes at Poitiers, foreshadowed the pieced decorative gables on the exteriors of the flamboyant-style churches.
	hal.muhlberg.edu /depts/forlang/LLC/rus_cult/gothic_resources.htm (4282 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for tracery
		It is characterized chiefly by ornate tracery forms that, by their suggestion of flames, gave the style its name.
		The bar tracery of a High Gothic rose window consisted of a series of radiating...
		In architecture, the intersection of lobed or scalloped forms, particularly in arches (cusped arches) and tracery.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=tracery&StartAt=1 (714 words)

	Churchmouse: Glossary.
		There are various forms of bar tracery such as:- Geometrical tracery characteristic of c1250 to 1310.consisting of circles or foiled circles in the head.
		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.
		A type of tracery typical of early 14th century consisting entirely of circles drawn at the top and bottom of the window head to form Ogee shapes so that a net like appearence results.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /peter.fairweather/docs/glossary.htm (1931 words)

	Bar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" [syn: barroom, saloon, ginmill, taproom] 2.
		the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" [syn: prevention] 7.
		In bar of, as a sufficient reason against; to prevent.
	www.capezone.com /Bar.html (1112 words)

	Scottish Gothic Churches and Abbeys :: The English Decorated and Perpendicular styles and their European context
		Although bar tracery even of the simple form used at Reims did not appear widely until its use at Westminster Abbey, the lavish decoration at that church of which it was a part soon led to its diffusion throughout English architecture.
		Alongside the virtuoso tracery and carving of York and Beverley, whose Percy tomb and associated screens are one of the most extravagant examples of the Decorated, English architects of the period developed notable innovations in their vaults and in their spatial ideas.
		Their tracery was in the uniquely English Perpendicular style, the vault in the equally English lierne form, again quite restrained by the latest standards.
	www.arthist.arts.gla.ac.uk /gothic_open/html/dec_perp.htm (1676 words)

	Norfolk Archaeological Trust
		The westernmost bays of the building, built about 140 years after the building was begun, gradually changed in style with more naturalistic carving of foliage on the capitals and more elegant pointed arches appearing in the upper storeys.
		Most impressive of all, and of tremendous importance for the history of medieval architecture in England, is the west front which displays the substantial remains of probably the earliest surviving bar tracery in the country, built in the time of Prior Richard de Parco who died in 1244.
		This window could be the earliest example of bar tracery in England.
	www.norfarchtrust.org.uk /binham (1327 words)

	Looking at Buildings: from the Pevsner Architectural Guides. An introduction to understanding and exploring the built ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Gothic tracery is based on the geometry of circles, as is clearly visible in the earliest examples where the heads of the windows are filled by one or more roundels.
		This invention of ‘bar tracery’ began in France in the earlier 13th century, and was rapidly adopted in England from the 1240s, the rebuilt choir of Westminster Abbey providing a prestigious example of the GEOMETRIC style.
		During the 14th century an alternative approach developed, in which the tracery was reduced to a grid of horizontals and verticals, hence its name PERPENDICULAR, whose rectangular compartments were convenient frames for images.
	www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk /default.asp?document=1.C.2.1.1 (317 words)

	Artisans of the Valley - Glossary of Woodworking & Architectural Terms
		A style characterized by tracery designs that resemble upward spiraling flames, dominant in the north of France.
		A classic example of this work is the north spire of Chartres, which stands in evident contrast to the remainder of the cathedral, completed two centuries before.
		Their role is to transfer the great weight of the vaulted roofs off to this more solid support of the firmly set abutments.
	www.artisansofthevalley.com /comm_gloss3.html (6083 words)

	bar
		(in tracery) a relatively long and slender upright of stone treated as a colonette or molded.
		The police barred the exits in an attempt to prevent the thief 's escape.
		He was barred from membership because of his reputation.
	www.infoplease.com /dictionary/bar (357 words)

	Tracery
		English words defined with "tracery": Fan tracery ♦ Geometrical tracery ♦ Jesse window ♦ lancet window ♦ Oillet ♦ Plate tracery, Purfled work ♦ rose window, rosette ♦ Stump tracery ♦ Tracer/y ♦ unmarred, unmutilated ♦ vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated.
		"Tracery" is used about 76 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English.
		"Tracery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Trabert, tracey, traceys, trachedy, trachery, tracier, trager, traker, trecherie, Treveri, tricey, Triscari, trocar.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.com /definition/Tracery (634 words)

	Binham
		This was the time the tracery in the west window was largely bricked in, but it had probably been falling to pieces for years.
		Bar tracery had first appeared earlier in the century at Rheims Cathedral, and enabled a great flowering of artistic style.
		Westminster Abbey has surviving Decorated tracery from later in the century, and there is some evidence that Decorated windows were installed at Lincoln Cathedral and Windsor before those at Binham, but are now lost.
	www.norfolkchurches.co.uk /binham/binham.htm (899 words)

	SalisburyCathExt
		They must still be called blank plate tracery, but come very close to bar tracery.
		The cloisters introduce the bar tracery of Westminster Abbey to Salisbury, and with a sumptuousness so far quite absent from the design of the cathedral.
		The walls of the cloister walks are all covered with blank arcading, echoing the openings with their bar tracery.
	www.astoft.co.uk /salisburycathext.htm (925 words)

	1913Dictionary.com > Bar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		bar the branch of a tree, bar, baren branch, gael.
		andfist; a double bar marks the end of a strain or main division of a movement, or of a whole piece of music; in psalmody, it marks the end of a line of poetry.
		-- matter in bar, or defence in bar, any matter which is a final defense in an action.
	www.1913dictionary.com /dictionary/word/bar (887 words)

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