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 229
BOMANESQUE STYLE BOOD-BEAM. 215 Lombard, Byzantine, &c. All these names imply sup- positions, with regard to the history of this architecture, which it might be difficult to substantiate ; and would, moreover, in most cases, not be understood to describe the style in that generality which we leaim… … front of these roods, Slierboi’iie, Dorset. especially on certain festivals of the Church. Rood-beam, Rood-loft, Holy-loft : the rood spoken of in the last article was supported either by a beam called the rood-beam, or by a gallery, called the rood- loft, over the screen, separating the choir, or…
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