A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1879)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 196
th trefoils, quatre -foils, &c. Decoratedparapets on plainbuildings frequent-ly consist of simplebattlements, but onrich structures areornamented in vari-ous ways; they arefrequently straight at the tOp and pa- DeCorated Parapet, Beverley Minster, c. 1350. nelled, or, more commonly, pierced… … Parapet— Pargeting. undulation; embattled parapets are also panelled andpierced in a similar manner; the coping also of the battle-ments began to be car-ried up the sides of themerlons so as to form acontinuous line roundthem. In the Perpendi-cular style a plain bat-tlemented parapet wasvery…
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