A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1879)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 108
ntrance into a building, or into an apart-ment of a building. Among the ancients, doorways wereusually rectangular in form, though occasionally the open-ing diminished towards the top, until architecture becamecorrupted in the latter times of the Roman empire, whenthey were sometimes arched; when… … IOO In the architecture of the Middle Ages doorways arestriking and important features, and afford in the cha-racter of their mouldings and ornaments clear evidenceof the styles to which they belong. In the style men-tioned in this Glossary as perhaps being Saxon, they arealways plain, with very…
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