It is a foot wider than the chancel-arch of the Saxon church at Bradford, Wilts, and two feet wider than the arch between the tower and chancel of Wotten Wawen church in Warwickshire, the jambs and arches of which were also built of rag-stone.
It will be noticed that the jambs of these arches go more than two feet below the level of the floor, which is another sign of their early date.
Later, during the Renaissance period, the fire was laid close to the wall, the space set apart for it framed with masonry jambs that supported a mantel shelf.
A projecting hood of stone or brick carried the smoke away, and the jambs were useful, inasmuch as they protected the fire from draughts.
The jambs have a rough arabesque scroll, terminating in a two-headed bird.
The lintels and jambs have elaborate arabesque scrolls, which remind one of Provençal Romanesque ornament.
The jambs bear four-feet figures of Adam and Eve outside the orders of the arch, holding fig-leaves in the same manner as the figures at Sebenico, which they much resemble.
To the west is a lintelled door, with consecration crosses on the jambs and carving of the ninth century on the lintel.
The south door has round arches beneath an ogee hood, the jambs are ornamented with damaged scrolled leafage, and in the tympanum is a figure of S.
There are also fragments of ciboria, altar frontals, or sarcophagi, while a column sawn in two has furnished decorated jambs to the door of the upper church.
The sea gate is also Renaissance; from the jambs still hang the ancient doors thickly studded with iron nails, and behind the door is a S.
Many marble coats of arms may be seen here and there, and the windows and door-jambs often have charming carved ornaments.
It has a scroll pattern up the jambsand across the lintel, with the characteristic triple furrowing, and above the lintel a palmette cornice; on the reveal is a twisted guilloche treated in the same manner.
Many of the chimneys in old cob houses are of brick or stone, and brick and stone jambs are sometimes to be seen in cob walls, but they are probably by way of repairs to damaged corners.
The heads of the jambs are compound, being the head of a grinning beast, probably a lion, from the mouth of which emerges a gryphon head of small size.
The semicircle and upper portion of the jambs have single heads, not two of which are exactly alike, though all closely resemble each other.
This cat stood for him as the symbol of imaginative action.
The width of the faces of the jambs should be one fourteenth of the height of the aperture, and the cymatium one sixth of the width.
The height of the lintel should be equivalent to the width of the jambs at the top.
Further, the jambsthemselves should be diminished at the top by one fourteenth of their width.
The stiles toward the side of the jambs should be one half the rail.
The jambs of all the doors we had hitherto seen were plain.
Engraving 47: Sculptured Stone Jamb] [Engraving 48: Sculptured Stone Jamb] The plates opposite represent these two jambs as they stood facing each other in the doorway.
The jambs were the first pieces to go, and were replaced, in the case of the mounted man, by thick buff leather boots.
Besides the poleynes and the ailettes there are traces of plate jambs on the legs, and the arms are protected by plates and circular discs on shoulder and elbow.
Very soon the jambs were given up in favour of buff boots, and when once this was established the next step was the half suit which will be noticed in a succeeding chapter.
The western front has a central doorway set between arcading; the doorway jambs are delicately sculptured with the ivy and its trailing stem.
Adjoining, on the land side, was a postern under a pointed archway, which has the jambs grooved evidently to accommodate a portcullis.
The river from fifty to seventy-five feet in width is a succession of rapids--log-jambs and shoals almost its entire length.
The following day, accompanied by a single Massett Indian, I ascended the river for several miles, by means of two very small canoes, making several portages around log jambsover rapids and shallow places.
The jambs and casements are decorated with thirty-seven marvellously vivid reliefs of the signs of the Zodiac, the seasons and labours of the year, a kind of almanac of stone of rare invention and execution.
On the jambs are the five wise and five foolish virgins; apostles and saints on the embrasures of the door; below them reliefs of the virtues, each symbolised above its opposite vice.
The door-jambs I, J and K, L will help support the roof.
Q, S across the door-jambs to form the top to the doorway, after which put in the supports Q, R and S, T.
C) and using the two pieces nailed to the sides of the door-jambs (Fig.
A), and two at the middle of the line C and D for door-jambs (plan, Fig.
In each bay the jambs and heads are of old work, filled in with Perpendicular tracing.
Remains of two canopies in thejambs of the windows are also to be traced.
To make the new clerestory the whole of the original Norman work over the arcade of the triforium was removed, with the exception of the jambs of the side-lights (which extended beyond the arches of the triforium) and the wall between them.
In using Ham Hill stone or Beer stone, that was extracted in blocks, the pillars, the jambs of doors and windows were made of several pieces laid in courses and cut to fit one another.
But when the architects of Perpendicular times had to deal with granite there was no need for this; they made their pillars and jambs in single solid blocks.
The jambs of doorways are generally moulded, frequently with one or more small shafts.
The first and simplest mode of obtaining this is by channelling the jambs and arch head; and this is the chief practical service of aperture mouldings, which are otherwise entirely decorative.
Further, we know that in Britain one of the ways of decorating an opening in a late medieval building was to put mouldings on jambs and head of a doorway or of a window.
It was built separate from the main body of the church, but was connected to it at the jambs and tops of the interconnecting doorways--as the floor plan shows.
The slits in the jambs of the great arches and on the front serve to light the passages and chambers, which are constructed in all directions within the thick walls of this part of the facade.
In the jambsare slender Purbeck shafts, twice banded.
A most interesting, though perplexing, band of sculpture runs horizontally across the front; it commences just above the side niches, and is continued in the jambs of the great arches.
Traces of the same design have been found on the walls of the south aisle, and on the jambs of its west window.
The other, which seems to be of the same age, is on one of the jambs of the east window of the south aisle, over the altar.
Both jambs were built into the side of the cellar hole and were seated on a bed of small rocks, but the robbed back-wall had rested only on the natural sandy clay at a depth of 2 feet 3 inches below the modern grade.
The jambs of the partially surviving chimney (fig.
Internally, in this eastern gable, there is placed below the window, and in continuation of its interior splay, a recess about 18 inches in depth, and of nearly the same breadth as the divergence of the jambs of the window.
I should also observe another feature common to both these windows, namely, that it is only the jambs that are splayed.
The thin single flat sandstones composing the jambs are each large enough to extend backwards the whole length of the interior splay of the window, and, from the marks upon them, have evidently been hammer-dressed.
But the jambsof this window incline or splay internally, so as to form on the internal plane of the gable an opening 2 feet 3 inches in breadth.
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