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 41
Barge^oartf. 3i Barge-board, Verge-board, a board generally used on the verge of gables where the covering of the roof extends over the wall ; it usually projects from the wall, and either covers the rafter, that would otherwise be exposed, or occupies the place of a rafter. On the gables of houses… … teenth cen- tury. After that time they were used most abundantly, and were of very various designs, and in later examples they not unfrequently supported a hiplcnob on the point of the gable ; they are usually either feathered, or panelled, or pierced with a series of trefoils, quatrefoils, &c.,…
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