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 194
180 PARAPET PARLOUR. … Parclose, Perceose, an enclosure, screen, or railing, such as may be used to protect a tomb, to separate a chapel from the main body of a church, to form the front of a gallery, or for other similar purposes ; it is either of o]3en-work or close. Pargeting, Pergeting, the term appears formerly to…
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