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 239
onry ; the truth of this theory, however, is not fully established, nor has the subject of Saxon architecture been yet sufficiently investigated to clear away the obscurity in which it is involved. The class of build- ings referred to as being considered to belong to this style contain some rather… … slightly from the surface, somewhat re- sompting, Sussex, sembling pilasters, which are generally of the same “long and short” construction as the quoins; on towers there are sometimes several tiers of these, divided from each other by plain strings, or bands ; semicircular arches and triangles,…
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