A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic architecture, illustrated by four hundred and forty woodcuts (1846)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford: J. H. Parker · leaf 148
several orders ; sometimes the entablature of an order serves for the impost of an arch. Mr. Hosking observes that, sometimes, and more conveniently, this term is used for the pilaster itself, when its capital is called the impost-cap or impost-mouldings.” In middle age archi- tecture imposts vary… … former of these styles, and Dreux, Normandy. occasionally in the latter, an impost-moulding running through the jambs which in section resembles an abacus.
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