A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 359
inch: Sai.isblrv Cathedral: c. IJJOfl. SQTTINCH. An arch, a lintel, corbelling, orsystem of such members, built across the interior corner of two walls, as at the top of a tower,to serve as foundation for the diagonal or cantedside of a superimposed octagonal spire or lan-tern. The squinch performs… … SguiNT: Cp.\w,kv < hi hch, Hampshire; i:5thCentlrv; the Sill serves as a Piscina. SQUINT. An aperture pierced a.skewthrough the interior walls of a church, often onthe .side of a ihanccl arch, so as to give a view 587 Trinity and their attributes, including the Host,the Assumption, the Cross.…
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