A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 399
g successive courses of masonry beyondthose below. Generally, to i-orbel out. CORBEL ARCH. A span of stoneworkconstructed by regularly advancing successivecom-ses, till the top ones nearly meet, when along capstone is laid across to complete thework. This was the nearest approach to thetrue arch… … Corbel; Lincol?j Cathedral. only other arch used in America.was that seen in the .snow dome of the I]skimo. (,Sec 075 CORBEL TABLE Iglugeak ; Me.xico, Architecture of, Part I.;Treasury of Atreus.) (Cut, col. 677.) — F. S. D. CORBEL COURSE.In a masonry structurea course in which cor-bels are set;…
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