The antiquities of England and Wales . s of great nails, driven in at regular diftances ; as in thewave of old St. Pauls, and the great tower at Hereford (all of them found alfo in more ancient Saxonbuildings) :—the billeted moulding, as if a cylinder mould be cut into fmall pieces of equal length, andthefe ftuck on alternately round the face of the arches; as in the choir of Peterborough, at St. Crofs,and round the windows of the upper tire on the outfide of the nave at Ely :—this latter ornament wasoften ufed (as were alfo fome of the others) as a fafcia, band, or fillet, round the o
The antiquities of England and Wales . s of great nails, driven in at regular diftances ; as in thewave of old St. Pauls, and the great tower at Hereford (all of them found alfo in more ancient Saxonbuildings) :—the billeted moulding, as if a cylinder mould be cut into fmall pieces of equal length, andthefe ftuck on alternately round the face of the arches; as in the choir of Peterborough, at St. Crofs,and round the windows of the upper tire on the outfide of the nave at Ely :—this latter ornament wasoften ufed (as were alfo fome of the others) as a fafcia, band, or fillet, round the of their build-ings.—Then to adorn the infide walls below, they had rows of little pillars and arches; and appliedthem alfo to decorate large vacant fpaces in the walls without (capitals of thefe were frequently orna-mented with grotefque work) :—and the corbel-table, confifting of a feries of fmall arches without pil-lars, but with the heads of men or animals, ferving inftead of corbels or brackets to fupport thera, which they.
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