A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1845)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884, Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. sgn, Fenwick, Isabella. ins, Reed, Henry. sgn, Wordsworth Collection · Oxford, J. H. Parker · leaf 319
ide upand down in a groove formed for thepurpose in each jamb, and was usuallykept suspended above the gateway,but was let down whenever an attackwas apprehended: the principal en-trances of almost all fortresses wereprovided with several portcullises insuccession, at some little distance apart:… … Henry Vllth.s Chapel, ■Westminster, sometimes for a bay of an aisle, especi-ally if fitted up with an Altar as a chapel.See Benthams Hist, of Ely, p. 18; andArchaeol., vol. xiii. pp. 290, 308. ^ Mr. E. J. Willson observes that it was sometimes called Sarrasin, probably fromits use being learnt in…
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