A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1900)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · London ; Oxford : J. Parker · leaf 215
$t*ctna— pimtfp 2 05, very abundant, and are to be found (or at least traces of them) in the chancel of most churches that have not been rebuilt, and very frequently at the eastern ends of the aisles of the nave also : their forms and decorations are very various, but the character of the… … the form of a dove. Plate, Platt, a general term applied to almost all hori- zontal timbers which are laid upon walls, &c., to receive other timber- work : that at the top of a building imme- diately under the roof, is a wall-plate ; those also which receive the ends of the joists of the floors…
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