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160 ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE. Part II. the Edwardian period there prevailed a restless desire for new inven- tions, and an amount of intellectual activity applied to architecture which nothing could resist ; so that these beautiful geometric forms in their turn were forced to give way after being employed for little 593. Window iu Chapter-house at York. English Geometric Tracery. 594. Window in St. Anselm's Chapel, Canterbury. more than half a century, and were superseded by the fashion of flowing tracery, which lasted, however, for even a shorter period than the style which preceded it. This time the invention seems to have been English; for though we cannot feel quite certain when the first specimen of flowing tracery was introduced in France, the Flamboyant