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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

An illustration from 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, leaf 81 — 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. … Corlwl-taWe, Iffley, OxfordsMre, c 1160. [As the carving was commonly executed after the stones wereplaced in position, it is sometimes of much later date than theconstruction of the masonry, and frequently in corbel-tables thesquare blocks have been left plain and not carved at all: goodexamples…

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