A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 169
s; each of these admits of somevariety of form, and there is considerable difference in themanner of working them between the Greeks and Romans.[See those terms.] The mouldings in Classical architectureare frequently enriched by being cut into leaves, eggs,and tongues, or other ornaments, and… … In mediaeval architecture, the diversities in trie propor-tions and arrangements of the mouldings are very great,and it is scarcely possible to do more than point out a fewof the leading and most characteristic varieties. In the Norman style the plain mouldings consist simplyof squares, roundB, and…
