In the Early English style tabernacles became more
enriched and their niches more deeply recessed ; the figures
were sometimes set on small pedestals, and canopies were
not unfrequently used over the heads. They were often
placed in suites, or arranged in pairs, under a larger arch ;
when in suites they were very commonly separated by
single shafts, in other cases the sides were usually moulded
in a similar way to windows. The arches of the heads
were either cinquefoiled, trefoiled, or plain, and when
hoodmoulds were used they were generally made to pro-
ject. Good examples are to be seen on the west front
of the cathedral at Wells.
Decorated tabernacles were more varied than those of



Stylobate, Stereobate, the
basement or substructure of a
temple below the columns, re-
sembling a continuous pedestal.
See Podium.
Subsellum = Miserere.
Summbb, a horizontal beam
or girder, usually called Breast-
summer.
Supeb Altabe. (1.) A small
portable stone altar, (see an ex-
ample engraved in Archaeologi-
cal Journal, vol. iv. p. 245). (2.)
Commonly but erroneously ap-
plied to the shelf or raised por-
tion at the back of the altar,
on which the candlesticks, <fec,
we placed.
Subbase, the upper mouldings ,



of a cornice of a Pedestal.
Subbaseo Abch, an arch which
rises less than half the breadth
of the opening above the level
of the springing.
Syle, or Sule. See Sill.
SYSTYLE,one of thefive species
of intercolumniation denned by
Vitruvius. In this the columns
are set at a distance equal to
twice the diameter of the shaft
measured at its lower part just
above the apophyge, or (which
is the same thing according to
the Vitruvian proportions) the
distance between tne plinths is
exactly equal to the diameter of
the plinths.
