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BELFRY STAGE.--The story of a tower where the belfry occurs. Usually marked by large open arches or windows, to let the sound escape.
BELL .--The body between the necking and the abacus .
BILLET MOULDING.--A moulding consisting of a group of small blocks separated by spaces about equal to their own length.
BLIND STORY.--Triforium .
BOSS.--A projecting mass of carving placed to conceal the intersection of the ribs of a vault, or at the end of a string course which it is desired to stop, or in an analogous situation.
BOW WINDOW.--Similar to a Bay-window , but circular or segmental.
BROACH-SPIRE.--A spire springing from a tower without a parapet and with pyramidal features at the feet of its four oblique sides to connect them to the four angles of the tower.
BROACHEAD .--Formed as above described.
BUTTRESS.--A projection built up against a wall to create additional strength or furnish support .
BYZANTINE.--The round-arched Christian architecture of the Eastern Church, which had its origin in Byzantium .
CANOPY.-- An ornamented projection over doors, windows, &c.; a covering over niches, tombs, &c.
CAMPANILE.--The Italian name for a bell-tower.
CAPITAL.--The head of a column or pilaster .
CATHEDRAL.--A church which contains the seat of a bishop; usually a building of the first class.
CERTOSA.--A monastery of Carthusian monks.
CHAMFER.--A slight strip pared off from a sharp angle.
CHANCEL.--The choir or eastern part of a church.
CHANTRY CHAPEL.--A chapel connected with a monument or tomb in which masses were to be chanted. This was usually of small size and very rich.
CHAPEL.-- A chamber attached to a church and opening out of it, or formed within it, and in which an altar was placed; a small detached church.
CH?TEAU.--The French name for a country mansion.
CHEVRON.--A zig-zag ornament.
CHEVET.--The French name for an apse when surrounded by chapels; see the plan of Westminster Abbey .
CHOIR.--The part of a church in which the services are celebrated; usually, but not always, the east end or chancel. In a Spanish church the choir is often at the crossing.
CLERESTORY.--The upper story or row of windows lighting the nave of a Gothic church.
CLOISTER.--A covered way round a quadrangle of a monastic building.
CLUSTERED .--Grouped so as to form a pier of some mass out of several small shafts.
CORBEL.--A projecting stone supporting, or seeming to support, a weight .
CORBELLING.--A series of mouldings doing the same duty as a corbel; a row of corbels.
CORBEL TABLE.--A row of corbels supporting an overhanging parapet or cornice.
CORTILE .--The internal arcaded quadrangle of a palace, mansion, or public building.
COLUMN.--A stone or marble post, divided usually into base, shaft, and capital; distinguished from a pier by the shaft being cylindrical or polygonal, and in one, or at most, in few pieces.
CORNICE.--The projecting and crowning portion of an order or of a building, or of a stage or story of a building.
COURSE.--A horizontal layer of stones in the masonry of a building.
CROCKET.--A tuft of leaves arranged in a formal shape, used to decorate ornamental gables, the ribs of spires, &c.
CROSSING.--The intersection in a church or cathedral.
CROSS VAULT.--A vault of which the arched surfaces intersect one another, forming a groin .
CRYPT.--The basement under a church or other building .
CUSP.--The projecting point thrown out to form the leaf-shaped forms or foliations in the heads of Gothic windows, and in tracery and panels.
DETAIL.--The minuter features of a design or building, especially its mouldings and carving.
DIAPER .--An uniform pattern of leaves or flowers carved or painted on the surface of a wall.
DOGTOOTH.--A sharply-pointed ornament in a hollow moulding which is peculiar to Early English Gothic. It somewhat resembles a blunt tooth.
DORMER WINDOW.--A window pierced through a sloping roof and placed under a small gable or roof of its own.
DOME.--A cupola or spherical convex roof, ordinarily circular on plan.
DOMICAL VAULTING.--Vaulting in which a series of small domes are employed; in contradistinction to a waggon-head vault, or an intersecting vault.
DOUBLE TRACERY.--Two layers of tracery one behind the other and with a clear space between.
EAVES.--The verge or edge of a roof overhanging the wall.
EAVES-COURSE.--A moulding carrying the eaves.
ELEVATION.-- A geometrical drawing of part of the exterior or interior walls of a building; the architectural treatment of the exterior or interior walls of a building.
ELIZABETHAN.--The architecture of England in, and for some time after, the reign of Elizabeth.
EMBATTLED.--Finished with battlements, or in imitation of battlements.
ENRICHMENTS.--The carved decorations applied to the mouldings or other features of an architectural design.
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