Plate VIExact
The construction in 23 steps

Two lights and an oculus

An equilateral arch on the span, two smaller ones inside it, and a circle whose centre is found by one arc swung from the springing through the quarter point. Its radius comes out at a quarter of the span, and it touches all four flanks exactly. Bar tracery of this kind begins at Reims around 1215 and is common after about 1240.

Sources

  • Reims Cathedral, chevet chapels, about 1215