A Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture, ส่วนที่ 1

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หน้า 150 - Early English, the first of the pointed or Gothic styles of architecture used in this country : it succeeded the Norman towards the end of the twelfth century, and gradually merged into the Decorated at the end of the thirteenth. At its first appearance it partook somewhat of the heaviness of the preceding style, but all resemblance to the Norman was speedily effaced by the we«iioor,si«r«chu«b,s,»re,,c.in».
หน้า 187 - You shall have sometimes fair houses so full of glass that one cannot tell where to become to be out of the sun or cold.
หน้า 37 - This was a name given to the courts of a castle formed by the spaces between the circuits of walls or defences which surrounded the keep...
หน้า 317 - Rustic-work, ashlar masonry, the joints of which are worked with grooves, or channels, to render them conspicuous ; sometimes the whole of the joints are worked in this way, and sometimes only the horizontal ones ; the grooves are either moulded or plain, and are formed in several different ways ; the surface of the work is sometimes left, or purposely made rough, but at the present day it is usually made even. Rusticwork was never employed in...
หน้า 234 - Salisbury) was a prelate of great mind, and spared no expense towards completing his designs, especially in buildings ; which may be seen in other places, but more particularly at Salisbury and at Malmesbury, for there he erected extensive edifices at vast cost, and with surpassing beauty, the courses of stone being so correctly laid that the joint deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block.
หน้า 220 - Gothic architecture the term is sometimes applied to louvres on the roofs of halls, &c., but it usually signifies a tower, which has the whole height, or a considerable portion of the interior, open to view from the ground, and is lighted by an upper tier of windows : lantern-towers of this kind are common over the centre of cross churches, as at York minster, Ely cathedral, Coutances cathedral in Normandy, the church of St.
หน้า 216 - This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. BAN. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
หน้า 176 - Galilee: a porch or chapel at the entrance of a church; the term also appears sometimes to be applied to the nave, or at least to the western portion of it, and in some churches there are indications of the west end of the nave having been parted off from the rest, either by a step in GABLETS, small ornamental gables or canopies formed over buttresses, niches, &c.
หน้า 146 - ... along the top of the frieze runs a broad fillet, called the capital of the triglyphs : the soffit of the cornice has broad and shallow blocks worked on it, called mutules, one of which is placed over each metope and each triglyph : on the under surface are several rows of guttae or drops.
หน้า 127 - Diapering, an ornament of flowers applied to a plain surface, whether carved or painted ; if carved, the flowers are entirely sunk into the work below the general surface ; they are usually square, and placed close to each other...

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