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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

ARCHIPEDIA - Q is for....


QUATREFOIL - a geometric shape often used in Gothic buildings in tracery and stylistic expression of battlements etc. Foil derives from the French word for leaf. Here as in this C13th Early English window St Mary Magdalene Woodstock, UK.

More examples here

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General Gothic images here

Saturday, April 01, 2006

Dogstooth


Early English Dogstooth Ornament (C13th), Holy Trinity Micklegate York UK.

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