Volume 1

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

  • John Henry Parker
Date:
1840
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Barriements, Embattatlment, Barerine, [ Zat. Pinnae, Fr. Cré- naux, Jtal. Merli, Ger. Sinnen, ], a notched or indented parapet, sometimes panelled, or pierced, or divided into openings, called embrasures: originally military, but afterwards used freely in ——— ecclesiastical work, both on para- Sip Macwe Beverley. pets, and as an ornament on the transoms of windows, &c. See Parapet. ““ With a square embattailment therupon.”’ “To the full hight of the highest of the fynials and bataylment of “« the seyd body.” Contract for Fotheringhay Church. Bay [F’. Baye, Ital. Baia, Ger. Bai, Wotheilung,], the quadran- gular space between the principal divisions of a groined roof, over which a pair of diagonal ribs extend, resting on the four angles: this term is also used for the horizontal space between two principal beams of a timber roof; and for the division of a building comprised between two buttresses. Also the part of a window included between the mullions, often called a day, or light. Mr. Whewell uses the term “compartment” instead of bay. Bay-winpow [Ger. Bogenfenfier], a projecting window, rising from the ground or basement, in a semi-octagon, semi-hexagon, or polygonal form, but always straight-sided: a bow-window is always a segment of a circle; an criel window is supported on a kind of bracket, and is usually on the first floor, most fre- quently over a gateway. These distinctions are little attended to in practice; the terms are commonly used as synonymous even by authors of reputation, and usually careful in their expressions. Some of these windows, in pure Gothic times, were rectangular projections, and some in Elizabethan times, or earlier, are circular, as at Thornbury Castle. « @Hith bay-Windows, goodly as map be thought.” Chaucer’s Poem of the Assemblé of Ladies. ‘Domus presbyterorum cum 4 Baywyndowes de frestone.”’ William of Worcester, p. 196. E 2
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