A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 61
ku.; 5th Century a.d. PARAPET. A dwarf wall or barrier builton the eilgc uf a terrace, jdatform, bridge, bal-cony, or other elevated place, as a protectionagainst falling; also above the cornice of ahouse, whether built with a steep or with a flatroof It is charaiteristically a solid… … ■% fl^ Parapet with Pieced Trefoils: S. MarysChurch, Oxford; c. VM). delicacy of detail; it is sometimes more or lessbroken with crenelations like a battlement, es-pecially when used as a sky line, and in somedomestic work it is corbelled out from the sur-face of the wall which it crowns, and takes…
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