Nook-shaft - A shaft set in the angle of a pier, a respond, a wall, or the jamb of a window or doorway.
Nymphaeum - Literally a 'temple of the nymphs' but generally a Roman pleasure-house, especially one containing fountains and statues.
Brickwork infilling of a timber-framed wall.Nook-shaft
Shaft set in the angle of a wall or opening.Norman
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NOOK-SHAFT: a shaft set in the angle of a wall or architectural feature. NORMAN: in architecture, the period and largely coinciding style of building, dating from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the advent of the pointed arch c.1200.
 See also: Church, Shaft, Roman, Architecture, Romanesque
  
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