A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 111
f the joints as describedunder INiinting (I.). POINT (v. t.). (n.) To dress stone roughlywith the point, by wliich its faces are broughtto approxinuitely plane surfaces. (See StoneDressing.) POINTED ARCHITECTURi. That whichis distinguished by the use of the pointed arch.The term seems not to have… … FnlN II A building of tlie Ivst (iDthic [lei-iod. but not intended for vaulting, and therefore notof Gothic Architecture in the strict sense. Gothic ; and it is also not •uncommon to dis-criminate between the Gothic style, properlyso called, with its elaliorate system of vaultedconstruction, fiying…
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