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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    Bower, %owre, the ladies’ chamber, or parlour, in ancient castles and mansions. These rooms were generally small in size, but very richly decorated, and had usually projecting, or bay windows. Also, any bowed or arched room: a dwelling in general. “And eke the hall and ebery bowere.” Chaucer. Boke of Fame. “@p then rose fair Annets father, Twa hours or it mer Van, And he is gane into the bower Wherein fair Annet lav.” Ballad of Lord Thomas, &c. in Percy’s Reliques. Bowrz-winpow, chamber window.—Percy. Whence perhaps Bow-window. BowreE ts, Boutells, or Woltells, the shafts of a clustered pillar : also used for any plain round moulding, from its resemblance to the staff of an arrow or bolt. Perhaps also used for the horizontal bars, or transoms. , “4 Bowtelle,” “A Boutell.” “A Grete Bowtelle.” William of Worcester, pp. 220. 269. «“ The windows of free stone...... shal no bowtels haf at all.” Contract for Fotheringhay. Braces [ Lat. Capreoli, &r. Contresiches, Ital. Razze, Ger. Strebebander,], the name given to the timbers of a roof which serve to strut or prop the backs, or principal rafters, into which the upper ends are framed, the lower ends being framed into the foot of the king-post, (or queen-post, as the case may be.) The braces are sometimes called struts’. Brackers [ Fr. Tasseau, Console, Jtal. Bec- catella, Bracchiére, Ger. Unterlage, Rlammer, ], an ornamental projection from the face of a wall, to support statues, &c., and sometimes merely for the lights to stand upon, that were usually kept burning in honour of any favorite saint ; one or two being frequently placed near : an altar, for that purpose’. It is not very ,.., p.m f ao i The whole frame, of which the braces 1 In the reign of Edward III. the form a part, is called a truss; the term head of that king, and of his queen Phi- will be more clearly understood by refer- _lippa, were often used as brackets, as in ring to the diagram under the word St. Aldate’s, Oxford, Plate 14: and the Roof. practice of using crowned heads, usually k Plate 14. those of the reigning sovereigns, as
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