A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 44
ch, Oxford,of Isham Church, Northauts,and some others, batUr ;that is, they are smaller atthe top than, at the bottom,the walls all inclining in-wards. Wharf walls, andwalls built to support em-bankments and fortifica-tions, generally hatter. Battlement, an indentedparapet originally used onlyon… … Basinet. See illustrations toBrews. Bastile ,a castle or tower usedas a prison. Bastion, a bulwark or towerprojecting from the face of a for-tification. 33 ISattlniunt.
