A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 178
ps of buttresses niches were sometime?made to occupy the whole breadth of the buttress, so as tobe entirely open on three sides, with small piers at tho frontangles; pedestals were very common, particularly in nicheswith projecting canopies, and in such eases were eithercarried on corbels or rose… … Magdalen Churcb, Oifonl, c. IV/:. Kullin^tuu, Oifurdbliire, c. figures, and these varied considerably in form, but of the 172 more legitimate niches the general character did not differvery materially from those of the preceding style. Inplan the canopies were usually half an octagon or…
