A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1879)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 281
as sometimes in the formof a tower. The Sacrament-Hauslein, in the church of St.Laurence, Nuremberg, constructedby Adam Kraft, 1496—1500, issixty-four feet high, and tapersupwards in the form of a spireuntil it reaches the roof. In theearly ages of Christianity the nameof tabernacle was sometimes… … JEabemade. but at first they consist of little else than an ornamentalarch of the period, recessed so as to form a niche of suf-ficient depth for the reception of the statue. Variouskinds of hoods or canopies over the head of the figure aresoon introduced, and projecting corbels or other…
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