Half-hour lectures on the history and practice of the fine and ornamental arts (1875)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890, Linton, W. J. (William James), 1812-1897, illustrator · New York : Scribner, Welford & Armstrong · leaf 108
is corbelled out,forming an external canopy over the doorway. Previous to 1200 there is no evidence of glass windowshaving existed with us except in churches, and for a cen-tury and a half after that date the openings for light and airwere closed by wooden shutters, lattices, fenestrals, in all but… … Door and Chimney of Jews House, Lincoln. Twelfth century. of the upright window was glass, and the lower coveredby a hinged shatter. When only a shutter was employed,it was made to open outward hinged to the top of theopening, and supported by props, so that it acted as aneave or a barge-board in…
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