A Concise Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture

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J. Parker and Company, 1869 - 323 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 98 - Gothic styles of architecture used in this country : it succeeded the Norman towards the end of the twelfth century, and gradually merged into the Decorated at the end of the thirteenth. At its first appearance it partook somewhat of the heaviness of the preceding style, but all resemblance to the Norman was speedily effaced by the we«iioor,si«r«chu«b,s,»re,,c.in».
Σελίδα 8 - Item, that every minister saying any public prayers, or ministering the sacraments or other rites of the Church, shall wear a comely surplice with sleeves, to be provided at the charges of the parish; and that the parish provide a decent table standing on a frame for the Communion Table.
Σελίδα 25 - Bailey (Lat. ballium), a name given to the courts or wards of a castle formed by the spaces between the circuits of walls or defences which surrounded the keep : sometimes there were two or three of these courts between the outer wall and the keep, divided from each other by embattled walls.
Σελίδα 229 - Rustic-work, ashlar masonry, the joints of which are worked with grooves, or channels, to render them conspicuous ; sometimes the whole of the joints are worked in this way, and sometimes only the horizontal ones ; the grooves are either moulded or plain, and are formed in several different ways ; the surface of the work is sometimes left, or purposely made rough, but at the present day it is usually made even. Rusticwork was never employed in...
Σελίδα 86 - GER.©C= bliimte: an ornament of flowers applied to a plain surface, whether carved or painted; if carved, the flowers are entirely sunk into the work below the general surface ; they are usually square, and placed close to each other, but occasionally . other arrangements are • used, • as at Canterbury cathedral; this kind of decoration was.
Σελίδα 141 - LlERNE-Rnvnavaultacross rib that does not rise from the impost and is not a ridge-rib. LIGHTS, the openings between the mullions of a window, screen, &c. LINEN PATTERN. Vide Panel. LINTEL, a piece of timber or stone placed horizontally over a doorway, window, or other opening through a wall to support the superincumbent weight. LIST, a. fillet.
Σελίδα 307 - Vys = a screw), a spiral staircase, the steps of which wind round a perpendicular shaft or pillar called the newel. The majority of ancient church towers are provided with staircases of this kind, and they are to be found in various situations in most middle-age buildings. During the prevalence of the Norman style, the steps were formed of small stones supported on a continuous spiral vault, reaching the whole height of the stairs, one side of which rested on the newel, and the other on the main...
Σελίδα 243 - Set-off, or Off-set : the part of a wall, &c., which is exposed horizontally when the portion above it is reduced in thickness. Set-offs are not unfrequently covered, and in great measure concealed, by cornices or projecting mouldings, but are more usually plain ; in the latter case, in Classical architecture, they are generally nearly or quite flat on the top, but in Gothic architecture are sloped, and in most instances have a projecting drip...
Σελίδα 221 - ... correspondence and similarity with those of classical architecture; there is a prevalence of rectangular faces and squareedged projections ; the openings in walls are small, and subordinate to the surfaces in which they occur ; the members of the architecture are massive and heavy ; very limited in kind and repetition ; the enrichments being introduced rather by sculpturing surfaces, than by multiplying and extending the component parts. There is in this style a predominance of horizontal lines,...
Σελίδα 127 - Hip. The external angle formed by the meeting of the sloping sides of a roof, which have their wall-plates running in different directions : thus, when a, roof has the end sloped back, instead of finishing with a gable, the pieces of timber in these angles are called hip-rafters, and the tiles with which they are covered are called hip-tiles. The internal angles formed by the meeting of the sides are termed the valleys, whether...

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