A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1900)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · London ; Oxford : J. Parker · leaf 48
in proportion to the size of the merlons. On ecclesiastical buildings the battlements are often richly panelled, or pierced with circles trefoils, quatrefoils, &c., and the coping is frequently continued up the sides of the merlons so as to form a continuous 1 ine round them, as at St. George’s,… … figures of warriors or animals are carved on the tops of the merlons, as at Alnwick and Chepstow Castles. In the fourteenth century, and afterwards, battle- ments are very frequently used in ecclesiastical work as ornaments on cornices, tabernacle work, and other minor features, and in the…
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