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A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)

Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 228

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ains of these, more or less injured, are to befound in many churches, particularly at the east ends ofaisles, where chantry-altars have stood, as at St. Michaels,Oxford, &e.; and against the east wall of transepts, as inSt. Cuthberts, Wells. It was not unusual to decorate thewall at the back of… … HfirCiioa Ot Alllr, EnstOae, C. 14SC. ataattttt—aeUttoriaUt) IBorfe. 221 Ressaunt (probably Fr. Mmentir), anold English, term for an ogee-moulding. Itwas also applied to other architecturalmembers that had the inflected outline ofthis moulding. It is a purely technicalword, and seldom used. Church,…

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