Recording a Church: An Illustrated Glossary |
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User Review - jon1lambert - LibraryThingIf it is detail you want, here's the book. Everything you need to know about arches - depressed, nodding, rampant, relieving, stilted, shouldered. How like people they are. I'll swap my ogee for your voussoir. Read full review
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