A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . Gable: House op 17th Ckntuky, at Ghent, Belgium. The iioiated windows and tr-icery are 14tli century work, restored. 163 G^BLE WITH Blind Tracery, 13th Century; Pobch, Cathe-dral OF Amiens, South Aisle. thatch or shingles or roof boarding at that exposededge. GABLE ROOF. (See under Roof.) GABLET. A miniature gable, usually employed asa decoration, especially in Gothic building, where it isused chiefly as a decorative form of coping, as on a but-tress, pinnacle, or the like; to decorate and emphasizean arch,
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . Gable: House op 17th Ckntuky, at Ghent, Belgium. The iioiated windows and tr-icery are 14tli century work, restored. 163 G^BLE WITH Blind Tracery, 13th Century; Pobch, Cathe-dral OF Amiens, South Aisle. thatch or shingles or roof boarding at that exposededge. GABLE ROOF. (See under Roof.) GABLET. A miniature gable, usually employed asa decoration, especially in Gothic building, where it isused chiefly as a decorative form of coping, as on a but-tress, pinnacle, or the like; to decorate and emphasizean arch, as in a decorative arcade, or in a church facade.(Cut, col. ) GABLE WALL. A. Same as Gable End. B. By extension, in the United States, any sidewall of a city house of the usual type; because suchhouses had formerly, most often, gable roofs pitchedto the front and rear, the side walls being thengables. 164 GABRIEL GABRIEL, JACQUES (I.) ; architect. All arcliitcc-t ul Ainciitaii (Oriic, Fmuce).In 1605 he contracted to build the vaults ofthe church of S. (Terniain at Argentau. He
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