A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1879)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 13
Merton College Chapel, Oxford, a.d. 1280. 4 Abacus—^cantfuts* … The round mouldings have often fillets worked on them,and these again are also found in Early English work. In the Perpendicular style, the abacus is sometimescircular but generally octagonal, even when the shaft andlower part of the capital are circular; when octagonal,particularly in work of late…
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