A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1879)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 268
ver pulpits, and supposedto diffuse the sound of thepreachers voice over the church. Sowdels, or Soudlets = sad-dle-fcars. Span of an arch, the breadth of the opening between the im-posts. Span-piece, the name givento the Collar-beam of a roof insome districts. Span-roof, a roof consistingof two… … ment is very seldom found in the doorways, but spandrels are sometimes used in other parts of buildings, especially in Decorated work, in which they are frequent, as at Ely. In the west door of the chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford, the spandrels of the outer arch (which stands considerably in…
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