thatthey have been bought by Lord Ashburnham, forthe sum of £8,000.—Athenaeum. 18 THE decorators ASSISTANT. ^erms tiseti m Architectural mtiInterior Bccoration, ^c. Machicolations. Projections over the gates ofcastles, so constructed as to admit of naelted lead,stones, and other missiles being… … vaultiug of portals for the same use. As castel-lated edifices became more magnificent, these be-came ornamental works over the principal gates.Sculpture, however rude, was admitted at an earlyperiod, either over the machicolation of the gates,or in the grotesque figures used as water-spouts.…
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