A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1845)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford : J. H. Parker · leaf 64
. In the earlier Imple-ments the embrasures appear to have been narrow in proportionto the size of the merlons. On ecclesiastical buildings thebattlements are often richly panelled or pierced with circles,trefoils, quatrefoils, &c, and the coping isfrequently continued up the sides of… … m . j Walls of York 1 The existing keep of Rochester castleis so popularly regarded as the work ofBishop Gundulph, who died in 1107, thatit appears almost an act of presumptionto question its being so; hut the truth is,there is no real foundation for this belief,while there are very strong grounds…
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