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 263
or pedestal was used ; the niches resemble piscinas, except that they differ in situation, are smaller and plainer, and very rarely have any hole in the bot- tom : examples in a Pylle Church, near Glastonbury, Somerset. mutilated condition re- main in various churches, as in the south porch of… … Stringcourse. Stylobate, Stereobate, the basement or substruc- ture of a temple below the columns, resembling a con- tinuous pedestal. SuRBASE, the upper mouldings or cornice of a pedestal. SuRBASED Arch, an arch which rises less than half the breadth of the opening above the level of the…
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