A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1845)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford : J. H. Parker · leaf 418
us-sure: a vault. Expended in the repair of the kings chapel, viz.in the repair of the floor above the upper vestira ofthe same chapel, the twenty-two large pieces of timber with which he standscharged. And in the same works of the said chapel, as well in the vesura as in therepair of the floor of… … 402 VOUSSURE—WEEPERS. carpenters timber for the vousura, winch were estimated at about two hundred feet. Accounts of St. Stephens Chapel, Westminster, 19th and 20th Edw. III., published by Smith, p. 208. Wainscot, Fr. Lambris, Boiserie: this term originally seemsto have implied rough planks of oak…
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