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 400
siderable distancefrom the ground; thewalls of the hollow part appear to average about j,„„„, ,„„„ „„ !,,,„,,, i,,,„,. ,„„^, ,„,. three feet in thickness, and in the few examples which areentire, the termination consists of a conical stone roof^. Theage of these buildings is undetermined, and is… … ^ The round towers in Ireland generallyconsist of that kind of careful masonrycalled spauled rubble, in which smallstones shaped by the hammer are placedin every interstice of the larger stones, sothat very little mortar is intermixed. The masonry of the tower in DevenishIsland, Lough Erne, is not…
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