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 253
239 SHRINE SOCLE. were not imfrequently rebuilt (with additional splendour) subsequently to their first erection. Shrouds. See Crouds. Sill, Cill, Sole, the horizontal piece of timber or … Skew, Skew-table : the term skew is still used in the north for a stone built into the bottom of a gable or other similar situation to support the coping above (a) ; it appears for- merly to have been applied to the stones forming the slopes of the set-ofis of buttresses and other pro- jections.…
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