A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 354
FF SQUARE STAFF. A woDilen rod, squareiu seitiuu, set tlusli in an external angle of plas-tered surfaces to secure the corner from injury.Wheu moulded it is called a staff bead. (SeeShaft; Staft, B.: also subtitles Angle Bar;Bead.) SS. of the high altar from a point where it wouldotherwise be… … .RP-^ .■Mjri.NCH: Salisbury Cathedral; c. KJOO. SQUINCH. An arch, a lintel, corbelling, orsystem of such members, built across the inte-rior corner of two walls, as at the top of a tower,to serve as foundation for the diagonal or cantedside of a superimposed octagonal s]jire or lan-tern. The…
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