. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. his Architectural Nomenclatureof the Middle Ayes, 1844, is that preserved to us by William of Worcester, or Botoner,wlio was born in Bristol, in 1415, and is now best known by a manuscript note book re-maining in the library of Corpus Christ! College, Cambridge; it was printed in 1778by Nasmith. Two of its pages contain lists of technical words attached to roughly drawnoutlines of jamb mouldings, the one showing the north door of St. Stepiiens Churc
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. his Architectural Nomenclatureof the Middle Ayes, 1844, is that preserved to us by William of Worcester, or Botoner,wlio was born in Bristol, in 1415, and is now best known by a manuscript note book re-maining in the library of Corpus Christ! College, Cambridge; it was printed in 1778by Nasmith. Two of its pages contain lists of technical words attached to roughly drawnoutlines of jamb mouldings, the one showing the north door of St. Stepiiens Church, tlieother the west door of St. Marys lledcliffe Church, both at Bristol. These doors are stillin existence; on comparison, the former agrees perfectly with the mouldings of the sauihporch of the church in question, excejit that two little boltels have been scraped clean west door of lledcliffe Church has undergone a much severer s/ii«Hr«^. Fvi- 106).rejtresents tiie outline of the former door ; the names given to the mouldings by Botonei. are, A, a cors wythoute ; B, a casement, C, a bowtelle ; D, a felet; E, a double ressaunt;. Fig. 1062. Fig. 1061. ST. MARTS KhUOLlFFB; AMD ST. STKPHJiNSi BlilSTOL. F, a boutel; G, a felet; H, a ressant; I, a felet ; K, a casement wyth Levys ; L, a felet,a boutel, a felet; Rl, a ressant; N, a felet; O, a easment wytli trayler of Levjs ; P, afelet, a boutell, a filet; Q, a casement; 11. a felet; S, a casement; T, a felet; U, yn themyddes of the dore a bouielle. Of these terms (which display his various modes of spel-ling) ptrha))s the only ones needi;.g remark are K and O, which are identical, and havescjuare leaves or flowers in them of the usual fijrin, set at regular intervals, forming a longcontiimous train. Benet le Ffiemason appears to have worked the original section of the mouldings of the west door of Redcliffe Church is shown in Jig. lOii.,to which the names were also attached, the additional terms obtained b
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