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 16
4 ABACUS. are deep hollows and overhanging rounds, as in … times fillets worked Paul’s Cray, Kent. on them, as in the chapter-house, Oxford ; in general, the mouldings in this style have considerable projections with deep and distinct hollows between them. In the Decorated style, hollows are not so frequently to be found, nor '|i are they in general, when…
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