Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford [etc.] Parker and Co. · leaf 71
RIOD. The Corbel-tables are at first very plain, consistingmerely of square blocks at intervals, carrying the beamon flat stones which sup-port the roof, or withsmall arcs between them,or merely rude triangles,like the Anglo - Saxonarches; and these aresometimes continued inlate work, as at… … Norman Corbel. Corbel-tables under the eaves of the roof are veryabundant in late Norman and Transitional work, andare often proof that the walls are Norman, when thisis not otherwise evident, later windows having beeninserted. They are frequently square blocks of stoneonly, as if intended to be…
Architecture, Gothic
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