A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 354
.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… … Squi.nt: Crawley Church, Hampshire; 1.3thCentury; the Sill serves as a Piscina. SQUINT. An aperture pierced askewthrou^^h the interior walls of a church, often onthe side of a chancel arch, so as to give a view687 Trinity and their attributes, including the Host,the Assumption, the Cross. Used even…
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