A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 488
in turtificatinn. (See Retaining Wall and bibliography underthat term.) EASEMENT. .1. A curve fornud at thejuncture III two members, to one or both ofwhich it is tangent, and which would otherwisemeet at an awkwanl angle ; as where the slop-ing portion of a hand rail meets the horizontalpart, or… … East End: Church of Nokthborough, North-amptonshire.Type of simplest form. Compare the photographic [ilates. EAST END. The chancel end of a Chris-tian church ; so called fiom the mediieval piac-tice of erecting churches with that end towardthe east, in which direction the priest wouldface when…
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