Horton, Caroline W · New York, Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge, The Riverside press · leaf 183
Battlement. rich design, or, in a few instances in France, anapparent modification of the fleur-de-lis. Thiswas known as the finial. The wall itself, in the 166 Architecture. … earlier Gothic, was surmounted by battlements;but, at a later period, this was exchanged for a bal-ustrade of open stone work, richly ornamentedwith tracery. The spaces between the buttresseswere filled with windows, abovewhich rose pointed gables, usuallycrocketed and supporting pinnacles.The…
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