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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 239

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accompanied bythe figures of St. John and \the Blessed Virgin, placedone on each side of thefoot »f the cross : in frontof these roods lights werefrequently placed, espe-cially on certain festivalsof the Church- Of course,all such were destroyed,some probably as curly asHenry the Eighths reign,most… … Hoafl, Siierbom«n Dorset. Rood-tower, Hood-steeple:this name is sometimes appliedto the tower built over the in-tersection of a cruciform church. Baad-arch is sometimes appliedto the arch between the naveand chancel, from its being im-mediately over the rood-loft. 232 iEoaf. Roof, the external…

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