A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 280
he taber-nacle was sometimes In the formof a tower. The Sacrament-Eau&lem, in the church of St,Laurence, Nuremberg, constructedby Adam Kraft, 1496—1500, issixty-four feet high, and tapersupwards in the form of a spireuntil it reaches the roof. In theearly ages of Christianity the nameof… … but at first they consist of tittle else than an ornamentalarch of the period, recessed so as to form a niche of suf-ficient depth for the reception of the statue. Variouskinds of hoods or canopies over the head of the figure aresoon introduced, and projecting corbels or other pedestalsfor its…
