A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1879)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 319
e walls or upon any of the main timbers: thus floors aretrimmed at the fire-places andfor the passage of stairs. Thejoists, rafters, &c, into whichthe ends of the trimmers areframed, are called trimming-joists, and trimming-rafters. Triptic, a sort of tablet, inthree divisions, to open andshut,… … up on the decline of Gothic architecture usually calledElizabethan. The term is not very extensively used, andis most commonly understood to mean late Perpendicularwork, and Henry VII.sChapel at Westminster islooked upon as the mostperfect specimen in thisstyle. The Tudor Floweris a flat flower, or…
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