An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (1877)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford: J. Parker and Co. · leaf 306
or segmental, were in-troduced from column to column to carry the wall above, butthese were for a long period concealed behind either a realentablature or a sham one. The roofs are of wood, and ingeneral plain and ugly, though sometimes concealed by veryrich flat ceilings. This style of building… … 187. Wooden Tower on a stone wall, from Trajans Column. at all improbable. Wooden walls and wooden towers werecommonly used in fortifications at all periods; they are repre-sentations of wooden towers on the sculptures of TrajansColumn, at Eome. The stone construction, called long-and-short work,…
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