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A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1882)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 114
io4 ©onrfriag. outer mouldings, is used in the arch, and has a very rich effect : small buttresses or niches are sometimes placed at the sides of the doorways. A weather-moulding is almost universally used ; it is generally supported at each end on a boss of foliage, … with crockets and Crick, Northants., c. 1350. finials, the space between them and the mouldings of the arch being filled with tracery-panels, foliage, or sculpture. In plain buildings the doorways of this style are frequently quite plain, and the head is often of the form called the shoulder -arch…Architecture
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