An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongmans, Green, 1876 - 1395 pages |
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... WOOD BY R. BRANSTON FROM DRAWINGS BY JOHN SEBASTIAN GWILT . REVISED , WITH ALTERATIONS BY AND CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS WYATT PAPWORTH , FELLOW OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS . ADDITIONALLY ILLUSTRATED WITH NEARLY FOUR ...
... WOOD BY R. BRANSTON FROM DRAWINGS BY JOHN SEBASTIAN GWILT . REVISED , WITH ALTERATIONS BY AND CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS WYATT PAPWORTH , FELLOW OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS . ADDITIONALLY ILLUSTRATED WITH NEARLY FOUR ...
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... wood in the construction of his private palace . According to Du Halde , the iron - wood , the ly - mo , is as tall as the oaks of Europe , but is less in its trunk , and differs from it in colour , which is darker , and in weight . The ...
... wood in the construction of his private palace . According to Du Halde , the iron - wood , the ly - mo , is as tall as the oaks of Europe , but is less in its trunk , and differs from it in colour , which is darker , and in weight . The ...
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... wood , and varnished or painted with figures . Sometimes the communication between apart- ments is in the form of an entire circle , which some have compared to the aperture of a bird - cage . The windows are rectangular , and filled in ...
... wood , and varnished or painted with figures . Sometimes the communication between apart- ments is in the form of an entire circle , which some have compared to the aperture of a bird - cage . The windows are rectangular , and filled in ...
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... wood . Finan , the second bishop of Lindisfarne , or Holy Island , built a church in that island , A. D. 652 , for a cathedral , which yet was not of stone , but of wood , and covered with reeds ; and so it continued till Eadbert , the ...
... wood . Finan , the second bishop of Lindisfarne , or Holy Island , built a church in that island , A. D. 652 , for a cathedral , which yet was not of stone , but of wood , and covered with reeds ; and so it continued till Eadbert , the ...
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... wood ; and it seems probable that Alfred's buildings were , in general , more remarkable for their number and utility than for their grandeur ; for there is suf- ficient evidence that , long after his time , almost all the houses in ...
... wood ; and it seems probable that Alfred's buildings were , in general , more remarkable for their number and utility than for their grandeur ; for there is suf- ficient evidence that , long after his time , almost all the houses in ...
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15th century aisles arch architect architecture axis base beam breadth bricks building built called cast iron Castle cathedral cement centre of gravity chapel choir church circle circumference colour columns construction Corinthian order cube cubic foot curve decorated depth describe diameter dome Doric order draw edifices ellipsis employed entablature equal erected examples extrados feet girder given Gothic granite half horizontal inches intercolumniations joints length lime limestone marble mortar mouldings nave oolite ornaments palace parallel parallelogram perpendicular piece piers placed plane plates portico Portland stone Prop proportion pyramid quarries radius rectangle ribs right angles right line Roman Roman architecture Rome roof sandstone side similar sofite solid square stone strength style surface tangent temple thickness tiles timber tons tower transepts triangle upper vault vertical Vitruvius voussoirs walls weight whereof width wood