A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 46
inhalls, where they are invariablyfound at one end, and sometimesat both ends, of the dais, and thelights are generally considerablylonger than those of the otherwindows, so as to reach muchnearer to the floor. Semicircularbay-windows were not used tillGothic architecture had begun tolose its… … Comptoo Wlavate, WarwickatiLre- 40 Bfak^afc—Bell. Beak-head, a term applied to an ornament which isvery frequentlyused in richNorman door-ways, resem-bling a headwith a beak;there are manyvarieties of thisornament. An-other similarform having atongue hangingout, instead ofa beak, is call-ed the…
