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 293
continental work the subjects are usually arranged in tiers, one above another, and often embrace a great number of figures. Vane, jpane, a plate of metal turning on a vertical spindle so as to shew the direction of the wind, frequently fixed on the tops of spires and pinnacles and other elevated… … Stanton Harcourt, Oxon. vane was shaped like an heraldic device. Vault, Folt, Fatotc. The limits of this work do not admit of more than a very brief notice of the different descriptions of vaulting employed in architecture. The simplest and most ancient kind used over a rectangular area is the…
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