A B C of Gothic Architecture

PEEPENDICULAH WINDOWS. 195
The "Windows of ^ew College and the ante-chapel
of Merton College,Oxford,
early and
as are to be found of
afford perhaps as fine examples
perfectPerpendicular.
They are both what
is called sub-arcuated, but
in New College the window
is of four lights, and tHe
sub-arches rise from the centre
mullion; while in Merton,which
is of three lights,
the mullions are carried up
to the architrave,and the
side lightsonly are sub-arcuated.
Both these forms
are very frequent. In many
later examples
these subarches
are entirelydisused,
and all the mullions are carried
through the transom ;
Oxford, A.D. 1386.
this is the case at iN'eW Col-
^^^^^^ Perpendicular tracery,
Ipff-p" hnt if TP-nQ offprwnrrlQ with sub-arches and a transom, the
lege ,
out It was atterwaras
^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ j.^j^^^cinquefoiied(five
used to excess, so as greatly foUed).
to injurethe effect of the windows.
William of WykeJiain, New College,
In the later examples the arches of the windows are