A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1875)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 48
appear to have been narrow in proportion to the size of the merlons . On ecclesiastical buildings the battlements are often richly panelled, or pierced with circles, trefoils, quatrefoils, &c., and the coping is frequently continued up the sides of the merlons so as to form a continuous line round… … Occasionally on military structures wans of York, figures of warriors or animals are carved on the tops of the merlons, as at Alnwick and Chepstow Castles. Towards the end of the thirteenth century, and afterwards, battle- ments are very frequently used in ecclesiastical work as ornaments on…
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