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A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1879)

Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 200

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the ends of thetie-beams, which are sustainedat the bottom by corbels pro-jecting from the walls. Peristyle (Gr.), a court, square, or cloister, in Greekand Roman buildings, with a colonnade round it; also thecolonnade itself surrounding such a space. In mediaevalLatin it is called the… … Henry the Sevenths Chapel, Westminster,A.u 1510. 192 pcntimttbe—Perpmtitcular <StgIe.

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