The doorway on the south side of Great Redisham Church is of a date considerably anterior to the first Edward's reign: it affords a good example of the rude Norman architecture so prevalent in the Suffolk churches. RUDIMENTARY DICTIONARY OF TERMS USED IN ARCHITECTURE, CIVIL, ARCHITECTURE, NAVAL, BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION, EARLY AND ECCLESIASTICAL ART, ENGINEERING, CIVIL, ENGINEERING, MECHANICAL, FINE ART, MINING, SURVEYING, ETC. TO WHICH ARE ADDED EXPLANATORY OBSERVATIONS ON NUMEROUS SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH PRACTICAL ART AND SCIENCE. SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED AND IMPROVED. London: EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY JOHN WEALE, 59, HIGH HOLBORN. 1860. PREFACE. IT was intended that the contents of this work should be comprised within the space of about one hundred and fifty pages, and thus form a single volume of the series of 'Rudimentary Treatises;' but in the course of its compilation it soon became apparent that such confined limits were wholly inadequate to the admission of explanations of terms which, although not immediately connected with the subjects mentioned in the title-page, were yet deemed essential to their further amplification: its utility as a book of reference will therefore, it is hoped, be found commensurate with its necessarily increased extent. Since the publication, in 1819, of Mr. Peter Nicholson's elaborate 'Architectural Dictionary,' in two quarto volumes, changes of vast import have occurred: the field of practical science has been widely extended, and proportionately occupied by a new generation of professional men and students; important advances have been made in the arts of design and construction; and the extended application of steam as a motive power has not only produced an extraordinary development of the means of internal communication, but surmounted those impediments which considerations of space and time formerly presented to the pursuits of men in quest of business or pleasure, thus influencing, to a great extent, |