A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1892)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · London ; Oxford : J. Parker · leaf 162
t Snodland Church, Kent, has a lock the principal keyhole of which is covered by a plate of iron shutting over it as a hasp, which is secured by a second key. In the sixteenth century they were frequently very elaborate and complicated pieces of mechanism, and when fixed on ornamental works were… … a building; a gallery or small chamber, raised within a larger apartment, or in a church, as a music-loft, a singing-loft, a rood-loft, &c. Loop-hole, Loop, Loup, nar- row openings, used in the fortifications of the Middle Ages, through which arrows and other missiles might be discharged upon…
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