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Bay internal division of abuilding by piersorcolumns against the wall and transverse arches in ceiling or vault.


Bay windowangular or curved projection of a house front.


Beak-head Norman ornamentalmotif consisting of a row of grotesque bird or beastheads with beaks usually biting into the semi-circular or roll-moulded surround of the arch of a door or window.


Blind tracery


tracerypurelyfor decorative purposes appliedtowalls without glazing or openings.Extensively used during the Norman and Early English periods.


Block capital


(also called cushion capital).Romanesque capital cut froma cube by having the lower angles of each side rounded off to the circular shaft below.


Boss keystone at the meeting of vault ribs. It is usuallydecorated with figure or foliated carving.


Brickwork bricklaid in courses according to specific patterns or bonds.


Buttress stone or bricksupport projecting froma wall to give additional strength especially where the pressure of internal vaulting places stress against the interior surfaces.


C


Cable moulding Normanmoulding imitatingropeora twistedcord.


Capital carved or mouldedblock of stone placed on top of column.


Cartouche decorative tablet or framefor inscriptions or coat of arms.


Caryatidwhole female figure supporting an entablature.


Castellated battlemented.


Chequer-work


an alternating use of coloured brick squares, often black andred,orstone and flint, resembling a chessboard, often found in East Anglia.


Chevron zigzag ornament foundin Norman work.


Chinoiseriedecoration toevokeafeelingof China. Itinfluenced furnitureandporcelain aswell as architecture wherepagodas, teahousesandpavilions becamepopular.


Coffering ceiling decoration of recessed square or polygonal ornamental panels.


Coving the curving of thesideofceilings above the wall cornice to give an added dimension, as in the Double Cube Roomat Wilton House.


Corbel blockofstone beneathroofeaves or to supportwallshafts. Oftentheywere carved with figurative decoration.


Cornice aprojecting ledge forming the top sectionofthe entablaturein Classical architecture.


Crocket leaf-like decoration sprouting fromthe sloping sides of spires,pinnacles, gables, etc.


Cusp projecting point between the foils in Gothic tracery.


D


Diaper work surface wall decoration composed of square or lozenge shapes.


Dog-tooth early English ornament consisting of a series of four leaves converging to apoint to form astarshaped pattern, set between moulded bands.


Domeavault over a circular or polygonal base,semi-circular segmented, pointed or bulb shaped in section. Oftenraised on a drum.


Dormer window placed vertically in the slope of a roof, sometimeshiddenby abalustrade.


E


eaves underpart of asloping roof overhanging a wall.


engagedcolumns


columns attached to, or partly sunk into, a wall.


entablature


thewhole of thehorizontal members above a columncomprising architrave, frieze and cornice in Classical architecture.


entasis slight convex deviation fromthe vertical used on Classical columns to prevent an optical illusion of concavity.


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