Hints to young architects, comprising advice to those who, while yet at school, are destined to the profession, to such as, having passed their pupilage, are about to travel and to those who, having completed their education, are about to practise, together with a model specification involving a great variety of instructive and suggestive matter (1887)
Wightwick, George · London, Lockwood · leaf 255
ith carved finialsand crockets), &c. Or (same general description No. 107. as No. 105), substituting Pinnacles, &c. for water-tables gablets (as described in No. 106) (and adding,) The top gablet to becrowned with (plainmoulded) (moulded crock-eted) (panelled) pinnacles,having carved… … No. 108.Pediment,Greek orItalian. The ashlaring in the tympanum of pedimentto be precisely accordant, in the height of itscourses, and construction, with that of the (wallsbelow, or general face of building). Thehorizontal cornice to be a continuation of (main PEDIMENTS. 243 cornice), omitting the…
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