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ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE.
Part II.
156 ENGLISH ARCHITECTUIIE. Part II. Be this as it may, in their treatment of tracery, which followed immediately on the introduction of the pointed arch, the English architects showed considerable originality in design, though inspired l)V the same sobriety which characterizes all their works. It cannot 589. Ely Catliednil, East End. (,Cath. Hb.) be said that they invented the lancet form of window, numberless examples of small windows with pointed heads existing on the Con- tinent; but they did invent what maybe called the lancet style of fenestration. Nowhere on the Continent are such combinations to be found as the Five Sisters at York (Woodcut No. 588), or the east end
