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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    Grufilebne, Ger. See Balustrade. Gruftwebr, Ger. See Parapet. Surg, Ger., a fortified city or house. See Castle. Bursary, the place for receiving and paying money by the Bursars, or officers of accounts, in religious houses: the office is still continued in the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. The scholars or exhibitioners formerly supported at the universities by the different monasteries, were also called Bursars. Burrery, Butter’s Panrry, an office found in all ancient halls, colleges, &c. Burments, or Asurments, [ fr. Culées, tal. Pilastri,} lateral supports or props, against which the feet of arches rest. Burrress, Botress, Wotras, Wotrasge, Woterasse, (Lat. Ortho- stata, Mr. Appui, Boutoir, Eperon, tal. Puntello, Ger. Strebe- pfciler, Stube, Gewslbpfeiler,], a projection from a wall to create additional strength and support. Norman buttresses have more of the character of pilasters, and are usually flat, without breaks, and with very little projection’; but the use of the vaulted roof caused a great increase in the strength and projection of the buttress, which first became graduated, or divided into stages’, then open or perforated, to relieve its heavy appearance without diminishing its real strength: and this soon led to the Flying Buttresss (Arc-boutant), carried across by an arch from one wall to another; thus making the buttresses of the side aisles contribute in a very essential degree to sup- port the roof of the nave, choir, &c.t_ These began to be used in the Early English style, but were not common until a subsequent period: the most common buttress of the Early English style is plain, with a considerably bolder projection than the Norman; sometimes divided into two or more stages, and terminating in a triangular head, with frequently a small cross, flower, or other orna- ment on the point, but rarely amounting to a middle ages we have some interesting r Pottern, Plate 16. specimens still remaining in an entire state, or nearly so; as at Croyland in Lincolnshire, Woolbridge, Dorsetshire ; at Salisbury, Banbury, &c. aq As at St. Mary’s, Leicester, and Glastonbury, Plate 16. foreign cathedrals. When the external buttress is considered inadequate to resist
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