A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 359
I J iM-ii iiiiii;iiiiiiSlsit,iiiti!Sai:!iiiaikiSi^^^^ Squinch: Salisbury Cathedkal ; c. ISX). SQUINCH. An arch, a lintel, corbelling, orsystem of such members, built across the inte-rior corner of two wall.s, as at the top of a tower,to serve as foundation for the diagonal or cantedside of a… … Squint: Crawley Church, Hampshire; i:!thCentury; the Sill skrvics as a Piscina. SQUINT. An aperture jiierced askewthii)Uf;li the interior walls of a church, often onthe side of a chancel arch, so as to give a view6S7 Trinity and their attributes, including the Host,the Assumption, the Cross. Used…
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