A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic architecture, illustrated by four hundred and forty woodcuts (1846)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford: J. H. Parker · leaf 164
150 LOCK — LOCKEK. fixed on the inside of the door; locks of this kind are now often to be seen on church doors. Another kind was entirely of metal, with one side made ornamental, … Evreux. found on chests, but with a hasp which shuts into it to receive the bolt. Ingenious contrivances were some- times resorted to in order to add to the security of locks ; a door on the tower staircase at Snodland church, Kent, has a lock the principal keyhole of which is covered by a plate of…
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