The mullions in the windows in the second stage are later insertions.
The original foliation seems to have been cut away, and the intermediate mullions extended to the points of the two lights.
Over all is an uncomfortable sense of desertion, and the high empty windows, with stone mullions and square labels, somehow give a skull-like appearance to the frame of the west front.
Most of the windows have eight rounded granitemullions and small leaded panes of glass, and in some the original glass still remains.
At the further, or eastern, end is a pointed window divided by mullions into five lights carried up to the head with a drip-mould protecting it on the outside.
Surmounting them is a large square window, lighting the porch chamber, divided by moulded mullions into five rows of lights, double transomed.
The one given from St. Mary's, Beverley, is a good example for showing the manner in which the lines of the mullions were carried up.
The ball-flower is even used as crockets on the spire of Salisbury Cathedral; and the mullions and tracery of some of the windows in Gloucester Cathedral are completely filled with it.
A simple line of colour with another of white next the mullions is enough for that.
If you were looking at a scene through a window, of course the mullions would interfere.
Similar confusion is inevitable when certain of the mullions are meant to be accepted as frame to the picture and others to be ignored.
Mullions count for much less in the window than one would suppose.
In the one case the mullions are seriously taken into account; in the other they are ignored.
The test of a good picture-window is, how themullions affect the design.
Mullions are in any case a very serious consideration.
In proportion as mullions become narrow, and form in themselves a design, it seems doubtful how far deep-coloured glass can do them justice.
Or, to account for it in another way, windows of considerable size coming into vogue, it became necessary, for constructional no less than for artistic reasons, to subdivide them by mullions into two or more lights.
Divisions of this kind often occur already in the stonework of the window, the lights being architecturally divided by stronger mullions into groups.
The mullions of this window being found much decayed, were carefully and consistently restored during the last year by Mr. Blore, and the ancient stained glass replaced.
One great blemish to the chapel exists in the window over the altar, the mullions and tracery of which have been removed to make way for dull colourless copies in painted glass of West's designs.
Its low-browed windows, with the stone mullions of unusual thickness, and the square hooded dripstones above, indicate that the house dates from the fourteenth or fifteenth century.
Bright and cheerful are many lattice windows which twinkle out between the heavy time-scarred mullions wrought long and long ago.
Left alone, Gimblet examined the window, opening one of the small-paned casements, and measuring the space between the mullions and the central bars of iron.
The white stone mullions of the many windows of the parts of the abbey added by Sir P.
The firemen were told to concentrate their efforts on this lovely feature of the building, with the result that the tracery and mullions survived in a more or less perfect condition.
The centre mullion represents a trunk of a tree with branches ornamented with foliage crossing over the other mullions to the outside jambs.
Mullions dividing a window in the centre should be avoided whenever possible, since they are an unnecessary obstruction to the view.
If mullionsare required, they should be so placed as to divide the window into three parts, thus preserving an unobstructed central pane.
An unusual feature is the fact that the mullions of the window have been carried down over the face of the stone wall below, thus agreeably tying together the wall of glass and the supporting one of stone.
Nothing could be more distinctive of the later period than the Perpendicular mullions surmounted by stiffly upright tracery lights, and yet the glazing could not be mistaken for anything but Decorated.
These two thicker mullions served the further artistic purpose of breaking the line of tall lights into groups of two or three each.
Instead of having its lines radiate from the centre in the customary manner, its gracefully curved mullions tend to flow up and down and suggest the fibres of five great leaves standing upright side by side.
The nine lofty lights are subdivided into three groups of three each by two mullions thicker than the others.
The nine lofty lights are subdivided into three groups of three each by means of two of the mullions which are thicker than the others; these two swerve off to the left and right when nearing the top in the usual Perpendicular manner.
The straight upward sweep of his mullions made easy an effective adjustment of the narrow canopy-framed niches, and left the artist little to do but elaborate the more modest sentry-box of the Decorated period.
Very graceful is the adjustment of the cartouches into which the stonemullions divide the entire surface, and also the way in which they tend to become pointed in the upper part of the embrasure.
All these mullions are swerved above and then disposed in accordance with the best Perpendicular traditions.
In fact, so much is given over to the glazier as to necessitate the erection of a stout buttress which runs up the centre, and without the assistance of which the slender mullions would be unable to support so great a weight of glass.
Instead, he tied the upper and lower lights together by carrying his mullions straight up through them all, and thus deprived the tracery ones of the independence as well as the decorative success they formerly enjoyed.
Jesse, as usual, is reclining below; the stone mullions are used to represent the branches of the vine, and at their intersections are disposed the descendants, much as we have often seen them depicted on glass.
Above this was another latticed window with Gothic mullions and ornaments.
It is divided by slender stone mullions into compartments, filled with light and elegant tracery, surmounted by crocketed canopy-work, terminated by bratishing.
The screen is open, with mullions richly carved in the arabesque style, and the loft is ascended by a circular staircase on the Epistle side, enclosed with open mullions.
The windows are square-headed, and surrounded by elegant mouldings; but the mullions have been destroyed.
A circular window, and usually one in which mullions radiate from a centre towards the circumference like the spokes of a wheel; sometimes called a rose-window.
Windows are usually very large, and with mullions and transoms, and it is to these large openings that Elizabethan interiors owe their bright and picturesque effects.
The windows have mullions and transoms like Gothic windows, but pilasters of elegant Renaissance design ornament the walls.
The mullions often continued perpendicularly into the head.
The mullions break the surface into too many vertical lines, and, with the transom, take away from the dignity and purity of outline of the exterior.
All the mullions of the clerestory windows have capitals.
Short mullions run from the points of the lower arches to the points of the upper.
These arches and the mullions themselves are set on a slanting ridge, like the mullions of the triforium in the transepts.
Below the transom dividing triforium from clerestory is a row of panelling divided by the mullions of the triforium, which, as in the nave, are merely a continuation of the mullions of the clerestory.
In the western bays the arches between the mullions of the triforium are cinquefoiled (they are trefoiled in the eastern bays), and the bases are much shorter.
There is a transom crossing the mullions of the screen about one-third of the way up.
Above these lights are two gables, to the crown of which the two side mullions run, through an arch below them.
The mullions dividing the screen run straight up to the battlement.
Behind these mullions is the customary triforium passage; but the design really consists only of two parts, the clerestory and the main arches.
You enter the capacious bar through a Jacobean screen and drink mellow home-brewed in the appropriately mellow light that comes between oaken Elizabethan mullions and through leaded casements.
The ancient features had suffered greatly in the prosperous times at the opening of the nineteenth century, when the stone mullions of nearly all the windows were removed and modern glass and wooden sashes inserted.
I suppose the mullionsare in their original places.
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