Volume 1

A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture / [Anon].

  • John Henry Parker
Date:
1840
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Credit: A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Banp [Lat. Fascia, Ir. Bande, Ital. and Sp. Benda, Ger. Leifte, |, a low, flat, or square moulding: also the round mould- ing, or suit of mouldings, which encircles the middle of the shaft in the Early English style. This term is also used for the tablet. or stringcourse round a tower, or other part of a build- ing, as a band of quatrefoils or other ornaments. Banveterte, Fr. [Lat. Teenia, Ital. Fasciuola, Ger. Rteine- Ieifte, |, a diminutive of the foregoing. Barristery, sometimes a separate building, sometimes the part of a church in which baptism was performed by immersion : or merely the shrine to contain the font; as at Luton, Bed- fordshire. BartisreriuM is the Latin name for the cold water bath found under the portico in some one of the open courts of the private houses of the Romans. Barsican, %arbpran, | fr. Barbacane, Jtal. Barbacdne,] a kind of watch-tower: also an advanced work before the gate of a castle or fortified town; or any out-work at a short distance from the main works, as at York. Mr. Planché considers that this term was also used for a projection over the crenelles or openings in a battlemented parapet, for the protection of the archers®. Barveau, Fr. See Shingle. Bares, those parts of an image which represent the bare flesh. ‘“To make the images, and hands and all other bares of the said ‘‘ images, in most quick and fair wise.” Contract for the Monument of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. Barce-Boarp, Berce-Boarp, VERGE-BoARD, or PARGE-BOARD, & board fixed to the ends of the gables of timber houses, to hide the ends of the projecting timbers of the roof, and throw off the wet: generally richly carved, and very ornamental. We occasionally find them of the 14th century: those of the 15th and 16th are not uncommon. See Gable. ; Barrizan, Bartizene, the small overhanging turrets which pro- ject from the angles on the top of a square tower, or from the parapet or other parts of a building. See Balistraria. e It was the badge of Anthony, bastard on this subject by Mr. Planché, in the of Burgundy. See an interesting letter Gentleman’s Magazine for March, 1839.
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