i8 On GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. 



of a number of figures, which are often extremely elegant, and 

 fometimes furprifingly complicated, though without confufion ; 

 for they can all be traced to fome variety or modification 

 of the fimple elements juft laid down ; as will be fliown, 

 when we treat of the more complicated works of Gothic ar- 

 chite(fl;ure ; at prefent, it is neceflary to mention only one other 

 defign. 



In this window, (fig. 26.), the halves of the neighbouring rods 

 are brought to meet, but not to crofs, and are bound together fo as 

 to touch tach other, back to back ; next, the halves of each rod 

 being brought together again, they are bound face to face ; then 

 again feparated, and bound a fecond time back to back, with 

 the halves of the neighbouring rods ; and fo on, till the whole 

 fpace is filled with a fet of regular and equal compartments, 

 bounded by waving lines, (fig. 26. & 29.). 



The form of the Gothic door may be traced to an origin fi- 

 milar to that of the laft mentioned window. One pair of 

 rods, (fig. 31.), being brought from the pods which form the 

 tipright fides of the door, are made to meet in a pointed arch, 

 in the manner defcribed above ; then, another pair of rods, 

 longer than the firft, and connedled with the fame pofts, are 

 brought to meet above them, and are bound together face to 

 face, like the half rods in the laft mentioned window ; the 

 fpace between the two pairs of rods being occupied by a circu- 

 lar hoop. 



The reprefentation of the upper pair of rods, when drefTed 

 with fome fmall ornaments, as in many Gothic buildings, pro- 

 duces a moft elegant effecfl. Figure 2 3' is a door of St Mary's, 

 Beverley, reduced from a drawing taken on the Ipot, at my 

 defire, by Mr J. Halfpenny. 



The form of the fteeple, however various and apparently dif- 

 ferent from what has hitherto been mentioned, can eafily be re- 

 duced 



