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A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 316

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ng an inverted V; ^ the term is derived from heraldry, — V an 1 there signifies a single A ; but in architecture it is seldom used except as part of a chevron moulding. CHEVRON MOULD-INGr. A uiouldiiig adornedwith chevrons, or zigzags,as in Norman and someRomanesque portals. Thechevrons are usually… … NUTKE DAME AT CHALONS-SUR^MAKNE; IXTEKIUK \ IKW, IdOKINCi EAST.633 ■ 53* CHIMERA 1391 to 1411, is su|i])o.seil til have built, or tohave superintended the Iniilding of, the nave,choir, and jiart of the chapter house of Canter-bury eatheihal. Ari-hViishop Arundel (see Arun-del, T.) contributed also…

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