A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 115
coratedstyle; it is not unfrequently con-tinued horizontally along the wallas a string, but this is not themost usual arrangement; it verycommonly terminates with a head,an animal, or other sculptured or-nament, sometimes with a shieldor an heraldic device. Several en-gravings illustrating the… … gradually merged into theDecorated at the end ofthe thirteenth. At itsfirst appearance it par-took somewhat of theheaviness of the preced-ing style, but all resem-blance to the Norman was speedily effaced by the wihinteDsw*^**development of its own peculiar and beautiful character-istics. The…
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