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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 48

An illustration from A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture, 1882, leaf 48 — Battlement. 3S and the intervals between them embrasures , hut 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,… … them, as at St.George’s, Windsor. On fortifi- st‘ George^Chape1’ Windsor- 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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