Manual of ecclesiastical architecture. Comprising a study of its various styles, the chronological arrangements of its elements, and its relation to Christian worship (1897)
Martin, William Wallace, 1851- · Cincinnati, Curts & Jennings; New York, Eaton & Mains · leaf 327
as united with the cornice (//). Then thecornice-feature was reduced to a mere narrow stoneband {12). Beauty was given later to this plain bandby carving it into open sculpture work. Finally thebalustrade was banished, and this sculptured bandchanged into the parapet (/<5, 77), which came into… … \ ^ -J H iQ placed the charms of per-fected Gothic and gave thelawless shapes of Flamboy-ant style, did not spare theparapet. The fifteenth cen-tury removed the cinque-foils and the quatrefoilsfrom the parapet, and sub-stituted circles (Fig. 214,18,ig), tripartite or bipartite.The sixteenth century…
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