A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 80
side ishigher than theothers. This formis supposed by someto imply a secondstory colonnade onthat side, the upperstory correspondingto the second storyof rooms. PERPEND. (Evi-dently derived fromthe French ^)ff;-paincj.) A. Athroughstone; abondstone passingthrough the wholethickness of a walland… … Perpendicular Architecture: Late Tracery; Kings College Chapel, Cambrldge. 101 102 PERPENDICULAR keeping the vertical joints over one another inthe alternate courses. This use, however, seemsto be derived from per-penilicular. B. A vertical joint inmasonry; espeiially inbrickwork, in which, whenof…
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