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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 348

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ghts divided by smaU shafts,or pillars, which are very usuallymade hke balusters, and encir-cled with bands of rude mould-ings*^; these generally have capi-tals, or imposts, formed of longstones reaching entirely throughthe wall; in some instances thebalusters are oblong in plan,as in the tower of… … Dunham Magna, Norfolk. * This kind of construction is occa-sionally to be met with in work of everydate, especially over the heads of open-ings which were not conspicuous, as onthe north side of the chancel of Kings-thorpe church, Northamptonshire, andover the belfry windows of the church…

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