An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders (1881)
Rickman, Thomas, 1776-1841 · Oxford : J. H. Parker · leaf 81
Iffley Church, East End, c. 1220. 56 THE NORMAN STYLE. Norman Tablets. In treating of tablets, that which is usually called the corniceis of the first consideration; this is frequently only a plain faceof parapet, of the same projection as the buttresses; but a row of … Corbel-table, Iffley, Oxfordshire, c. 1160. blocks is often placed under it, sometimes plain, sometimescarved in grotesque heads, and in some instances the grotesqueheads support small arches, when it is called a corbel-table^.A plain string is also sometimes used as a cornice.
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