A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1892)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · London ; Oxford : J. Parker · leaf 48
Battlement. 33 and the intervals between them embrasures , but these are rather military terms than ecclesiastical. In the earlier battlements the embrasures appear to have been narrow in proportion to the size of the merlons. On ecclesiastical buildings the battlements are often richly panelled, or … them, as at St. George’s, Windsor. On fortifi- st* George’s Chape1, Windson cations the battlements are generally quite plain, or pierced only with a very narrow, cruciform, or upright opening, the ends of which often terminate in circles, called loopholes or oillets , through which archers could…
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