A Concise Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture |
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Abacus Abbey aisles altar ancient angles apophyges applied apse arch arrangement buildings buttresses called canopies capital carved Castle Cathedral ceilings chancel Chapel choir churches circular Classical architecture columns commonly corbels cornice crockets cross cross-springers Decorated style doors doorways Doric Doric order Early English Early English style enriched entablature especially examples fillet finials flat foliage frequently gable Gothic architecture hall hollow houses impost jambs kind later Lincoln Cathedral lower ment Middle Ages mouldings mullions nave niches Norman style Northamptonshire occasionally octagonal ogee orna ornament ovolo Oxford Oxfordshire Oxon panels parapet period Perpendicular style Peterborough Cathedral pillars pinnacles placed plain plinth porch projecting quently ribs Roman Roman architecture roof round Saxon screen side small shafts sometimes spires splay square stone tecture Temple term tiles timber tion tomb tower tracery transept trefoil turret twelfth century unfrequently upper usually vault wall wooden
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Page 24 - Ashler, hewn or squared stone used in building, as distinguished from that which is unhewn, or rough as it comes from the quarry : it is called by different names at the present day, according to the way in which it is worked, and is used for the facings of walls.
Page 302 - Classical architecture are usually rectangular openings without any internal splay, with architraves and other ornaments on the exterior, very similar to those of the doorways, but sometimes they have arched heads ; and occasionally small circular and semicircular windows are used. In modern buildings, windows called Venetian windows are sometimes introduced ; they are of large size, divided by columns, or piers resembling pilasters, into three lights, the middle one of which is usually wider than...
Page 235 - Set-off, or Off-set: the part of a wall, &c., which is exposed horizontally when the portion above it is reduced in thickness. Set-offs are not unfrequently covered, and in great measure concealed, by cornices or projecting mouldings, but are more usually plain ; in the latter case, in Classical architecture, they are generally nearly or quite flat on the top, but in Gothic architecture are sloped, and in most instances have a projecting drip...
Page 8 - Item, that every minister saying any public prayers, or ministering the sacraments or other rites of the Church, shall wear a comely surplice with sleeves, to be provided at the charges of the parish; and that the parish provide a decent table standing on a frame for the Communion Table.
Page 85 - Diapering, an ornament of flowers applied to a plain surface, whether carved or painted; if carved, the flowers are entirely sunk into the work below the general surface; they are usually square, and placed close to each other...
Page 25 - BALL-FLOWER", an ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the three petals of which form a cup round it : this ornament is usually found inserted in a hollow moulding, and is generally characteristic of the Decorated style of the fourteenth century ; but it sometimes occurs, though rarely, in buildings of the thirteenth century, or Early English style, as in the west front of Salisbury cathedral, where it is mixed with the toothornament : it is, however, rarely found in that style,...
Page 25 - Battinm], a name given to the courts or wards of a castle formed by the spaces between the circuits of walls or defences which surrounded the keep : sometimes there were two or three of these courts between the outer wall and the keep, divided from each other by embattled walls.
Page 176 - Church to be kissed in the celebration of the Mass : it was usually of silver or other metal, with a handle at the back, but was occasionally of other materials; sometimes it was enamelled and set with precious stones. The pax was introduced when the osculum pads, or kiss of peace, was abrogated on account of the confusion which it produced. " Unam paxbnde vocatam relit." Test. Johan. de Means, 1377. Test. Ebor., p. 101. "A Paxbrede of silver andgilte, of the value of iiij marcs.
Page 182 - Perpeigne), a large stone reaching through a wall so as to appear on both sides of it ; the same as what is now usually called a bonder, bond-stone, or through, except that these are often used in roughwalling, while the...
Page 115 - Galilee: a porch or chapel at the entrance of a church; the term also appears sometimes to be applied to the nave, or at least to the western portion of it, and in some churches there are indications of the west end of the nave having been parted off from the rest, either by a step in GABLETS, small ornamental gables or canopies formed over buttresses, niches, &c.