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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… with billets. Bishops' Vestments.Same as an archbishop's, but without pall, and a bishop carries a crozier, and not … heraldry, a pale combined with a fesse, as the St. George's Cross; there are many other varieties, of which the … or cloth. Keep.The great tower or stronghold in a Norman castle; of greater height and strength than the other …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… with billets. Bishops' Vestments.Same as an archbishop's, but without pall, and a bishop carries a crozier, and not … heraldry, a pale combined with a fesse, as the St. George's Cross; there are many other varieties, of which the … or cloth. Keep.The great tower or stronghold in a Norman castle; of greater height and strength than the other …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… with billets. Bishops' Vestments.Same as an archibishop's ( q.v.) but without pall, and a bishop carries a crosier, … heraldry, a pale combined with a fesse, as the St. George's Cross; there are many other varieties of which the … connecting wall between the towers or bastions of a castle. Cushion-capital.A capital cut from a cube by having …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Middlesex
… with billets. Bishops' Vestments.Same as an archibishop's ( q.v.) but without pall, and a bishop carries a crosier, … heraldry, a pale combined with a fesse, as the St. George's Cross; there are many other varieties of which the … connecting wall between the towers or bastions of a castle. Cushion-capital.A capital cut from a cube by having …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
… with billets. Bishops' Vestments.Same as an archbishop's ( q.v.) but without pall, and a bishop carries a crosier, … heraldry, a pale combined with a fesse, as the St. George's Cross; there are many other varieties of which the … connecting wall between the towers or bastions of a castle. Cushion-capital.A capital cut from a cube by having …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… struck from a centre below the springing line. Archbishop's VestmentsBuskins, sandals, amice, alb, girdle, stole, … AzureIn heraldry, blue. BaileyThe courtyard of a castle. BaldacchinoA canopy, suspended or on pillars, over an … roof, a short distance from the face of the wall. Baronet's BadgeIn heraldry, an escutcheon argent with the Red Hand of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… from a coat-of-arms or a charge. BaileyThe enclosure of a castle. Ball-flowerIn architecture, a decoration, peculiar to … roof, a short distance from the face of the wall. Baronet's BadgeIn heraldry, an escutcheon argent with the Red Hand of Ulster, borne upon a baronet's shield. BaroqueA style of architecture and decoration …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… to carry overhangs on the adjacent sides. Benefactor's TableTablet or panel recording a benefaction. … pitch. Bull-nosedRound-ended. Butterfly Head-dressWoman's winged head dress of the 15th century. … forming the main feature of the earthworks of a Norman castle. MuntinIn joinery or carpentry, the central vertical …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the City of Salisbury
… for sacred vessels in a church. BAILEY The courtyard of a castle. BALL-FLOWER In architecture, a decoration peculiar to … the three days before Easter in commemoration of Christ's entombment (cf. W.A.M., II (1855), 309). EMBATTLED In … with a drain; it is generally set in or against the S. wall of the chancel, but sometimes is sunk in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of itself, locally in the hundred of Dudstone and King's-Barton, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 34 miles … often resided here in regal splendour, as also did William I. (who erected the castle, on the bank of the Severn), William II., and other …