A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 320
unt of the rebuilding of the choir of CanterburyCathedral, after the fire in 1174, describes the vault tobe ex lapide et tofo foil*. It is used in the vaultingof the late Norman porch on the north side of the naveof Eredon Church, Worcestershire, and in many otherbuildings. Tympanum (Lai), the… … the space immediately above the opening of a doorway, &c,in mediaeval architecture, when the top of the opening iesquare and has an arch over it; this arrangement is notuncommon in this country in Norman work, and on the STgmpaniim—Fallen;. Continent is to be found in each of the styles;…
