East of chancel #StMaryBitton for #TraceryTuesday
The chancel is recorded as late C14. From the tracery the east 5-light window with pointed cusped lights and label continuing the string course seems later still but you can't see the join. Make of that what you will
The #MouseEyeView of #StMaryBitton Part I
West elevation showing a wonderful large 4-light Perpendicular window, apparently inserted well after the tower was first built (fact check required), huge buttresses with offsets and moulded string courses #TraceryTuesday #TowerTuesday
Interior space of Camposanto of Pisa Cathedral, showing parts of one long side on the right and a short side in the distance. Each side featurers a doorway arch, and more than 20 very high openings visible around the two sides of the structure. Each opening has three slender columns with delicate tracery at the top. Beyond the far, shorter, section is a domed structure. Extending from the doorway on the right is a walkway to the opposite long side. Several bases of former columns are also set in the lawned interior of the building.
A more detailed look at one corner of the Pisa Camposanto from inside looking up, and obliquely across a corner. One of the arched entries is shown with other delicately traceried archways to either side of it. Through these openings can be seen a further expanse of arches along the passageway around the corner to the left. Tracery is outlined against a blue sky, and the roof timbers and a small section of interior wall are also visible.
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The 1277 Camposanto of Pisa Cathedral is vast: monumental in scale and impact. And very beautiful.
Built to provide a “large and dignified, secluded and enclosed place” for then scattered graves. Over time, it accrued huge frescos, monuments, memorials + bits of #Roman archaeology.
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#TraceryTuesday I am fond of this memorial window in Medmenham church, Bucks. It is poignant & beautiful.
The window is by A J Dix, & shows an Angel & Jesus on the left; while on the right, is Lt Col Arthur Murray Pirie DSO as a crusader.
Please see below for his details. @iangrebe.bsky.social
Tall, proud, and with a fetching variety of tracery- the main window in the south transept of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, with Ninian Comper’s 1914 stained glass showing the explorer John Cabot, ship & family at the top, and the merchant William Canynge below.
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An arch in white and greenish grey marble is topped w a band of decorated marble and stands proud of the wall of the church, resting on columns with Corinthian capitals with lions' heads among the acanthus leaves. The tympanum arch is also decorated with acanthus leaves, resting on the heads of two lions, resting on their paws. In the centre is a tracery circle with 8 arms, each has a small column on which decorative arches perforate the circle. Further wavy and leafy decoration extends around the circle. Under that is a shelf-like feature extending forward with 10 supports. This too is elaborately decorated above and in 4 rows below the 'shelf' with inverted Us, egg-and-dart type decoration, leaves and beading. Below that is the header of the door: a panel featuring six mythical/mysterious scenes, eg a mermaid with a split tail that wraps in a circle over her head, a horse with a human body/head, a lion standing on/biting a ?bull and dragon-like creatures. This rests on Corinthian columns that form the doorway.
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Distinctive decorative detail, + bonus #TraceryTuesday window, w mythical tales told on header of doorway below (see ALT), +++ #tinylions.
The portal w tympanum forms centre of blind arcade circling Lucca's San Michele in Foro: built over #Roman forum 8th C, rebuilt 11th-13th C.
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Adam and Eve kneeling before the hand of God, with a bowing donkey/mule? The serpent is also present.
I like the celestial detail at the top. #TraceryTuesday in St Peter's, Daylesford. Clayton & Bell is the firm responsible.
Advice on the scene presented v welcome! @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social
#TraceryTuesday Eve seems to be whisked from Adam quite briskly here, her tresses flying behind her, in this fine Victorian stained glass from St Peter's, Daylesford, Gloucestershire. @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social @beverleystanford.bsky.social
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#TraceryTuesday at Christ Church, East Kennett, in keeping with the imminence of Easter. Glass by Burlison & Grylls from 1888.
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Central bay, south transept #StMaryRedcliffe Bristol for #TraceryTuesday
Although this is primarily a Perpendicular church and although this is a panel window it is in the Decorated curvilinear (flowing) style with cusped #Ogee, daggers and quatrefoil in the tracery
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Classic Victorian design by Charles Ponting from 1878. Glass by Horwood Bros of Frome. Stunning tiles by Minton, Hollins & Co. At West Overton.
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#TraceryTuesday in Merton College chapel, Oxford.
The East window is outstanding late C13th work, with 7 lights all pointed-trefoil-cusped; the roundel has 12 spokes, with handsome intersecting tracery to the sides.
Beneath, elements of miniature architecture, in sumptuous Decorated style.
Carlisle Cathedral’s East Window was named the Nation’s Favourite Stained Glass Window, in competition organised by the Association of English Cathedrals (AEC). Field was narrowed down from stained-glass window from each of the 42 English Cathedrals, with the top 12 going into the final. Public vote then settled on Carlisle in February 2026. The view is through the choir to the east end, with light shining in on arches to the north. The altar stands before the east window. It is thought to be the work of Ivo de Ragheton, who was also responsible for the west front of York Minster. Over 50 feet high it retains some of its original 14th-century glass in the tracery at the top of the window. In flowing decorated style, that section features the Last Judgement of Christ. In the main section below is the Life of Christ, designed by Hardman & Co and installed in 1861 in memory of Bishop Hugh Percy.
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@carlislecathedral.bsky.social east window has some of finest, most complex, flowing decorated late Gothic tracery anywhere: named UK's fave stained glass window Feb 2026.
Completed by c.1350 in Cathedral rebuilding after disastrous 1292 fire. 56' x 26' w medieval glass in top part.
#TraceryTuesday with the west window at Tintern Abbey on a rainy day,
its glass long disappeared
See more of Tintern in the episode on South Wales >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0a9...
