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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 326

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to the baths, where the clothes of thebather were laid aside; and hence the entrance to a houseor any public edifice. Vignette (Fr. ), a running ornament consisting of leavesand tendrils, such as is fre-quently carved in the hol-low mouldings in Gothicarchitecture, especially inthe Decorated and… … IJtstrp—Uolut*. 319 Vestry, or Hevestry: a room attached to the choir ofa church, sometimes called the meristy, in which thesacred vessels and vestments were kept, and where thepriest put on his robes. In ordinary parish churches itwas usually an adjunct on one side of the choir, but wassometimes…

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