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An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)

Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 1003

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render it impos iblehere to give any account of them. A cliaracteristic111,1 k of the style is a small boltel in tlie lower])art (//(/. 1121.). The wall often recedes al)o\ethe stiiiig, or even overhangs it. Fii/. 1122. isthe section of the Angel cornice over thearches in Henry VII.s chapel, as… … Slid. IX. B.\SE COURSES OR Il.INTUS. Tliis term is api)lied to that series of mouldings formed at the base of a wall, which leads the eye from the ujiriglit face gradually into the ground. The lowest course of them is even called the earth table. Tiic early examples are very plain, consisting of…

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