Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c15.35

c15.35

Such windows are sometimes provided with two lights, as in one case at Malvatte, also figured by Mr. Lewis.† When, as in this case, and in that of the window of Pl. IX., 3, the window is also provided with wooden bars, we have an approach to the character of the second type of window. There is in the Kandy Museum a remarkable window‡ of two lights, which I rescued from the remains of a house at Nālanda. In this, as Mr. Lewis remarks, we have “the tracery of decorated or perpendicular Gothic, with a double ogee arch, independently developed.”