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 35
f a church. Ashlar, '^ct)clor, hewn or squared stone used in building, as distinguished from that which is unhewn, or rough as it comes from the quarry : it is called by different names at the present day, according to the way in which it is worked, and is used for the facings of walls, and set in… … Atlantes, male figures used in the place of columns to support entablatures, &c. : so called by the Greeks, but bv the Romans, Telamones. Attic, a low story above an entablature, or above a cornice which limits the height of the main part of an elevation : it is chiefly used in the Roman and…
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