A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic architecture (1888)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · London [etc.] Parker and co. · leaf 132
er, Four-leaved, a very favourite ornament in the Deco - rated and Perpendicular styles. Flutings, or Flutes (Lat. Fluo ), the hollows or channels cut per- pendicularly in the shafts of columns, &c., in Classical archi- used in all the orders except tecture ; Tuscan ; in the Doric they are twenty… … of Canterbury Cathedral. Crypt, Canterbury Cathedral. Precisely the same kind of ornament occurs frequently in Germany, as in the crypt of Roda Rolduc, near Aix-la-Chapelle, which might be a copy from Canterbury, and it occurs in many buildings of the twelfth century in other parts of the Continent.
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