By the time the rebuilding of St.Wulfram's church had progressed
as far as the Tower and the west end of the south wall, the 14th
century had begun and the style of tracery had changed.
The new style may still be described as Geometrical, but instead
of the circles and foils of the other Geometrical windows, here the
mullions are simply continued upwards in arcs until they meet the
window arch. The intersections of these arcs form a tracery of
lozenge-shaped openings.
This type of tracery is, not surprisingly, called Intersecting and
is of extremely simple construction since all the arcs are of the
same radius as that of the arch and their centres are at the same
level.
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