An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (1900)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · London : J. Parker · leaf 328
or segmental, were in-troduced from column to column to carry the wall above, butthese were for a long period concealed behind either a realentablature or a sham one. The roofs are of wood, and ingeneral plain and ugly, though sometimes concealed by veryrich flat ceilings. This style of building… … 187. Woodeu Tower on a stone wall, from Trajans Column. at all improbable. Wooden walls and wooden towers werecommonly used in fortifications at all periods; they are repre-sentations of wooden towers on the sculptures of TrajansColumn, at Rome. The stone construction, called long-and-short work,…
Architecture, Gothic
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