Rice’s Language of Buildings (2009)

Index of Terms

• abacus 23
• abbeys 35
• acanthus leaf 25
• acanthus leaves 21, 25
• acanthus scroll 21
• acroterion 115, 128
• acroterion with Greek ornament 128
• aedicule 17, 69, 71, 122
• aesthetical lady’s head in a sunflower 163
• aisle 52, 53, 58, 66, 137, 231
• aisle post 58
• aisle tie beam 58
• altar 52, 53, 132
• ancient temples 194
• anthemion 27
• antiquarianism 105, 131
• apophyge 22
• apron 71, 79, 98, 99, 169
• apse 52, 77, 123
• arabesque 167
• arabesque with ivy leaves 167
• arcade 100, 106, 143
• arch 19
• arched brace 72
• arches 54
• archetype 192
• artist at work 165
• bold geometric forms 185
• blind arcade 55
• blind arcading 36, 42, 43, 55
• Baroque arch 96
• brick arch 169
• brick voussoirs 69
• depressed arch 127, 138, 150
• Gothic arch 14, 35, 41, 47, 54, 56, 127
• Indo-Gothic arch 124
• Romanesque arch 12, 33, 41, 42, 54
• Rundbogenstil arch 152
• segmental arch 108, 119
• Soanian arch 122
• stilted 54
• stilted arches 43
• triumphal arches 14, 19, 33,75
• architrave 13, 81, 98
• banded architrave 97
• Baroque architrave 168
• blocked architrave 166
• bold statements 187
• Elizabethan architrave 69
• Georgian architrave 110
• Jacobean architrave 75. 81
• lobed architrave 85, 168
• Victorian architrave 154
• arrow loop 44
• Art Deco 161, 174-5, 180-3
• Art Deco building 181
• Art Deco motif 180
• Art Deco sunburst 182
• Art Nouveau 161, 171
• Artisan Mannerism 89-90, 191
• Arts and Crafts movement 147, 159-60, 172, 228, 230
• ashlar 53, 224
• assorted terracotta panels 228
• astragal 21, 23, 25
• attic 68
• attic storey 17, 19, 68, 106, 109, 128, 170
• badge 151
• balcony 120, 154, 179
• baluster column 171
• baluster mullion 39, 43
• baluster mullions 39
• balusters 24, 85, 86, 101, 128, 163
• balustrade 24, 67, 72, 101, 115
• banded trumeau 162
• banks 159
• bar 70
• bargeboard 134, 138, 153, 157, 231
• barns 108, 230
• Baroque architecture 13, 89, 91, 96-7, 102, 147, 168
• barrel vault 35, 44
• bartizan 142
• base 19
• column base 18, 19, 20
• basilica plan 77.90
• Bath stone 224
• battlemented tower 29
• battlemented parapet 65
• battlement 114
• battlements 38, 44, 65, 70, 75, 100, 114, 135,137
• Bauhaus 172-3
• bay 78
• bay window 47. 70, 78, 92, 134, 140, 147
• bays 15, 16, 78, 170
• bead and reel 23, 26
• bead & reel 23
• beakhead moulding 40, 41
• beak head 41
• bedroom 109
• belfry 53
• Benedictine order 35, 61
• bifora 155
• billet moulding 40
• billiard room 164
• Black Death 47, 48
• Blessed Virgin Mary 55
• blind arcading 36, 42, 43.55
• block course 107, 128, 129, 139
• blocking course 107
• block 166
• blocks 166
• brickwork bonds, 226-7
• decorative borders 27
• boss 45, 48
• bow 99
• bow window 114, 147
• bows 99
• brace 44, 54, 58, 72, 230, 231
• bressumer 51, 230
• brick 199, 226, 226-7
• brick arches 169
• diapered brick 164, 226
• brick keystone 71
• brick lintels 141
• brick polychromy 144, 145, 169
• Queen Anne style brick 146
• rubbed brick 112
• Victorian brick 150
• broach 28, 137
• broach spire 28
• broached tower 28
• broken pediment 14, 97, 150, 152
• Brutalism 176
• bucrania 83
• bucranium 27, 83
• bull’s eye (oeil-de-boeuf) 73, 98, 121, 126, 127, 140, 147, 168
• buttery 80
• buttress 38
• buttresses 38, 30, 55
• angle buttresses 38
• clasping buttresses 37
• clasping buttress 37
• diagonal buttress 137
• diagonal buttresses 137
• flying buttress 53
• flying buttresses 53, 66
• Gothic Revival buttresses 137,191
• polygonal buttress 64
• polygonal chimney stack 80
• polygonal shafts 78
• polygonal towers 67
• polygonal turret 66
• polygonal buttresses 59, 64, 66
• Byzantine Revival 77, 145, 161
• Byzantine window 140, 155, 169
• canopy 119
• capital 13, 18, 20, 23, 25, 61, 96, 143, 167
• Caroline architecture 88-91, 92-101
• cartouche 27, 115, 167
• cartouche with elaborate foliate decoration 167
• carved decoration in gable end 157
• carved panel 71
• carved stone Gothic pediment 156
• caryatids 192
• casement window 180
• castles 49
• cast-iron fanlight 125
• cast-iron porch 125
• cathedrals 34, 35, 131, 230
• chalk 225
• chamfered jamb 169
• chamfered quoin 82
• chamfered rustication 82
• chancel 62
• chapel 137, 146
• chapter house 35, 52
• chevron 42
• chevron moulding 40, 42
• chimneys
• chimney pot 100
• chimney stack 100
• chimney stack disguised as battlement 100
• Caroline and Queen Anne chimneys 100, 101
• Edwardian chimneys 164, 170
• Georgian chimneys 106
• Jacobean chimneys 75, 80
• Queen Anne revival chimneys 146, 147
• Tudor chimneys 64
• Victorian chimneys 134
• Chinese Chippendale 113
• choir 52, 53, 137
• churches 77
• Georgian churches 105
• Gothic Revival churches 137
• iconoclasm 88-9
• medieval churches 34-5, 53
• churches porches 55
• churches timber roofs 230
• churches towers and spires 15, 28-9
• Victorian churches 131-2
• wool churches 47
• Wren churches 90
• cinemas 374
• circuses 18
• Cistercian order 35, 61
• Classicism 13, 15, 17-25, 174
• Classicism and Georgian architecture 104
• Greek Revival 119
• Palladianism 25-7, 89.132
• prodigy houses 63
• Renaissance Classicism 60-1
• rules of Classicism 13-14
• clerestory 53
• classical buildings 195
• cloister 52
• cloister garth 52
• cloisters 35, 52
• closet 94
• clustered columns 41, 139
• clustered column 139
• Coade stone 126
• Coade keystone 126
• coat of arms 65
• coats of arms 48, 65
• coffee room 136
• coffer 24
• collar 72, 142, 143, 230
• collar beam 44, 58
• colonnade 24
• colonnette 42
• colonnettes 54, 86
• coloured faience decoration 163
• coloured panel 178
• columns 12, 24, 61, 75
• baluster 171
• baluster-like columns 128
• clustered columns 41, 139
• enclosed court yard 136
• engaged columns 14, 19, 24, 68, 83, 110, 129
• fluting 129
• Georgian columns 103, 104
• intercolumniation 13
• columns Orders 13, 20-3
• proportions of columns
• ringed columns 91
• Composite 21
• Composite Order 12, 13, 25
• concrete Expressionism 186
• console 27, 96, 115, 139
• coping bricks 227
• corbel 56, 142, 231
• corbel table 58
• corbelled-out brickwork 227
• Corinthian 21
• Corinthian Order 12, 13, 14, 21, 68
• Corinthian order 194
• corner stone 115
• corner pier 65
• cornice 18
• cornices
• Classical style cornices 12, 13, 17, 18, 21
• Elizabethan cornices 61, 63, 69
• Georgian cornices 10, 20
• Italianate style cornices 135
• Jacobean cornices 75, 81, 83, 85
• Palladianism cornices 89, 94
• Queen Anne style cornices 147
• coronet 27, 151
• cottage orné 129
• coupled columns 24
• coursed rubble 224
• courtyards 49
• coving 129, 147, 231
• crenel 44
• crenellation 44, 143
• crest 167
• cresting 12, 135
• cusp 54
• cusped arches 56
• cut-brick lintel 141
• Decorated style 14. 35.46.57.131.132
• Decorated tracery 57, 137
• decoration 14-15, 26-7
• deep grooves in the walls 186
• Della Robbia tondo 162
• tondo 162
• dentil 81, 86, 115
• dentils 81
• dentilated cornice 81
• depressed arch 127, 138, 150
• diapered brickwork 164, 226
• diapering with burnt headers 226
• die 19, 27, 143
• dining room 109, 121, 164
• Diocletian window 112
• dog’s-tooth moulding 40, 41
• dog’s tooth 41
• dome 38, 90, 101, 109, 119, 150
• door jamb 54, 169
• doorway 69
• doors and doorways
• Edwardian doors and doorways 156-7
• Elizabethan doors and doorways 61
• Gibbs doors and doorways 111
• Gothic doors and doorways 47
• Gothic doorway 138
• Gothic doorway with figurative carving 149
• Gothic Revival doors and doorways 149
• medieval doors and doorways 40
• Palladianism doors and doorways 26
• Venetian doors and doorways 10, 152
• Victorian doors and doorways 138, 139
• Doric 20
• Doric engaged columns 83
• Doric Order 12, 13, 20, 83, 111, 119, 133
• Doric porch 111
• Doric temple 193
• dormer 94, 101, 129, 115, 147, 149
• dormitory 35, 52
• drawing room 109
• drum 209, 223
• Dutch gable 75, 93, 146
• Dutch gable pediment 93
• Dutch gable with a pediment 73
• Early English style 14.35.132
• Early Gothic arch 41
• Early Perpendicular-style Gothic tracery 127
• eaves 120
• echinus 23
• Eclecticism 116, 153
• Eclectic entrance 153
• Edwardian architecture 158-61, 162-71
• egg 23
• egg and dart 23, 26
• egg & dart 26
• Egyptian style 174, 181-2
• Egyptian Art Deco motif 181
• Egyptian motif 182
• elevation 38
• Elizabethan architecture 60-5, 64-73, 75, 89
• ellipse 142
• embrasure 44
• enfilade 103
• engaged column 19, 24, 68, 89, 110, 12
• engaged Ionic columns 129
• English bond 226, 227
• Enlightenment 105
• entablature 13, 20, 25
• escutcheon 95
• exaggerated keystone 152
• extended chimney stacks 170
• faience 161
• fan vaulting 47, 62
• fan-light 110, 170
• fanlight 110, 111, 125, 179
• fascia 21, 359
• festoon 27, 95, 96, 99, 115, 166
• fin 184
• column 24
• column fillet 22, 23
• Crittall window 175, 182
• crocket 59, 139
• crocketed pinnacle 114
• crockets 57
• crocketing 12, 15, 37, 66, 134, 137
• cross-vaulting 119
• crossing 52, 53
• fireplace 103
• crown post 58
• cruciform church 53
• cruciform churches 53
• cruck blade 44, 230, 231
• cupola 28, 29, 150
• cushion 41, 42
• cushion capital 41
• cusping 54, 56, 59, 127, 151
• dagger 54, 56, 57, 142
• dais 70
• dais window 70
• dart 23, 20
• deconstructuralism 176
• double Flemish bond 227
• double Greek key 25
• double light 41
• entrance hall 136
• factory-made bungalows 186
• fielded panels 152
• fierce lion 111
• fillet 22
• finial 57
• finials 100
• ball finial 82
• ball finials 82, 101
• Gothic Revival finials 135
• medieval finials 57, 59
• Regency finials 124
• Tudor finials 64, 66
• Victorian finials 142, 143, 149
• fish-scale tiling 143
• five-light window with transom 64
• five-light Byzantine window 169
• Flemish bond 227
• Flemish bond with burnt headers 227
• fleuron 25
• flint 160, 225
• flushwork 48, 55
• flute 23
• flutes 21
• fluting columns 21, 23, 25, 149
• formal grid 184
• four-centred 54
• four-centred arch 69
• four-light window i
• four-light Gothic window 140
• four-light sash window 154
• four-light windows with transoms
• infilled fluting 69
• pilasters fluting 157
• stopped fluting 68
• flying buttress 53, 60
• column foot 13
• fret 26
• fretted bargeboard 138
• frieze 18
• friezes
• Classical style friezes 13, 17, 18, 34
• Edwardian friezes 162, 170
• Jacobean friezes 75, 82
• pulvinated friezes 83, 97, 110, 167
• pulvinated frieze 82
• terracotta friezes 171
• Tudor friezes
• Elizabethan friezes 69, 68, 69
• Victorian friezes 156
• frontispiece 60, 68, 80
• gable 36, 170
• gables
• Dutch gables 73, 75, 93, 140
• Edwardian gables 22, 100
• medieval gables 37
• Queen Anne style gables 146, 147
• attenuated shaped gable 162
• shaped gable 73
• shaped gables 73, 79
• Victorian gables 137, 157
• gablet 25
• gallery 109
• galleting 224
• garage 179
• gargoyle 53
• garland 85
• gate pier 114
• gatehouse 150
• gatehouses 35, 48, 49, 81,150,
• gates and gateways 59, 69
• gauged brick 227
• Georgian tower & cupola 29
• Georgian architecture 102-5, 106-15
• giant order 89, 91, 170, 180
• Gibbs doorway 111
• glazed walls 177, 180
• glazed wall 179, 180
• glazed door 153
• Gothic architecture 13, 14-15, 52-7, 64, 77
• Gothic arches 14, 35, 41, 47, 54, 56, 127
• Decorated style 14, 35, 46, 57, 131, 132
• Early English style 14, 35, 132
• Perpendicular style 14, 35, 46, 47, 56, 62, 118, 127
• Gothic finial 124
• Gothic Revival 77, 144, 148-9, 159
• Gothic Revival churches 132
• Pugin and Gothic Revival 12, 118 130-1, 172
• Gothic Revival railway stations 133
• Regency 117, 118, 127
• Gothic Revival schools 146
• Gothic Revival windows 154
• Gothic tracery 142
• Gothick style 35. 15, 105, 113, 118
• globe finial 101
• granite 234
• austere Greek order 138
• Grand order pilaster 170
• great chamber 38
• Greek Doric 20
• Greek fret 138
• Greek key 26
• Greek key motif 15, 26, 138
• Greek Revival 13, 118-19, 128
• grilles 168
• iron grilles 168
• groin vault 35, 44
• ground plan 53
• grouped chimney 64
• guest house 52
• guilloche 15, 26
• guttae 20
• hall 80
• hammer 72
• hammer brace 72
• hammer post 72
• hammerbeam 231
• hammerbeam roof 72, 230, 231
• head stop 40, 57, 84
• header 227
• header bond 227
• heavy articulation 187
• heavy eave 120
• heavy Italianate cornice 136
• heavy pedimented window with balcony 154
• helix 25
• heraldic beast 151
• heraldic device 54
• heraldry 48, 54, 59, 65, 78, 142, 151
• herm 114
• herringbone 226
• hinge 40
• hinges 40
• hipped roof 108
• hood mould 40, 56, 64, 69, 124, 134
• houses 117
• cottages 117
• manor houses 34, 36-7, 48-9, 63, 64-5
• modern houses 173, 175
• Queen Anne style houses 146-7
• terraced houses 118, 147
• villas 76, 102, 103, 117, 118, 175, 190-1
• iconoclasm 86-9
• impost 57, 68, 82, 129
• impure Classicism 155
• Industrial Revolution 130, 133
• infill of nogging 50
• ingress 164
• intercolumniation 13
• interiors 197
• interlocking iron grille 168
• International style 195
• intersecting blind arcading 36
• interrupted pulvinated frieze 167
• Ionic 21
• Ionic cap 129
• Ionic capital 69
• lonic Order 12, 13, 21, 68, 119, 129
• Ipswich window 98, 141
• Ipswich-type window 141
• ironwork 125, 142, 161, 163
• iron pier 142
• Italianate style 77, 10, 119, 130-1, 136, 145
• Jacobean architecture 74-7, 78-87, 89
• jamb 54, 169
• Japonaiserie 101
• jetty 30, 50, 230
• jolly use of colour 184
• keystone 17
• keystones 71, 82, 300
• Classical style keystones 17, 19
• Coade stone keystones 126
• corniced keystones 98
• decorated keystone 99
• decorated keystones 99
• Edwardian keystones 163, 168
• Georgian keystones 111, 112
• loose keystones 98
• flying keystones 98
• scrolled keystone 168
• scrolled keystones 168
• Victorian keystones 153, 155
• king post 230, 231
• kitchen 80
• lancet 12, 47, 54
• lancet arch 42
• lancet window 42
• lancet arch and window 42
• landscape gardening 117
• lantern 78, 101, 124, 142
• lantern tower 79
• larder 164
• lattice ironwork 142
• leaded lights 140
• lesene 19
• lesser chamber 38
• lettering 171, 238
• library 164
• lid 101
• lierne vault 35, 45
• lierne 45
• lift shaft window 181
• lights
• windows lights 113, 140
• limestone 225
• lintel 141
• lion console 115
• lodges 117, 133
• loggia 63, 120, 129, 164
• long and short work 39
• long & short work 39
• lozenge 39, 40, 138, 140
• lozenge leaded lights 140
• lozenge moulding 40
• lucarne 28, 137, 149
• lucarnes 149
• lunette window 108, 127
• maiden 114
• mannered Art Nouveau lettering on terracotta frieze 171
• manor houses 34, 36-7, 48-9, 63, 64-5
• masonry 159
• massive dome 197
• mathematical tiles 228, 229
• mathematical header 229
• mathematical stretcher 229
• medieval architecture 32-5, 36-45, 46-9, 50-9
• merlon 44, 70
• metope 20, 96
• Modernism 161, 172-5,178-87
• modernists 184
• modular building 183
• monasteries 34, 35, 32, 61-2
• monumental chimney 107
• motifs 15, 26-7
• motto 167
• mouchette 56, 154
• moulding 36, 40
• mullion 57
• mullions 39, 43, 57, 70, 75, 81, 85, 99, 163
• nailhead moulding 40
• nautical resident 180
• nave 52, 53, 62, 66, 77, 137
• neck 23
• capital neck 23
• needle spire 29
• neo-Classicism 104, 119, 145, 161
• neo-Classical 196
• neo-Gothic window 154
• neo-vernacular use of multifarious materials 164
• niche 54, 55, 59, 77, 96, 139
• nogging 50
• nook shaft 36, 37
• Norman architecture 12, 33-4, 35
• Norman arch 41
• North European Baroque 196
• obelisk 84, 87, 100
• octagonal bull’s eye 168
• ocellus 197
• oeil-de-boeuf see bull’s eye
• ogee 12, 46, 54, 57, 13, 83
• ogee turret roof 79
• ogival cusping 127
• open pediment 68, 97, 110, 150, 152, 157
• open segmental pediment 82, 157
• openwork 75, 86, 87
• openwork balustrade 72
• openwork flying buttress 66
• Orders 12, 13, 30-3, 60, 104
• oriel window 47, 56, 75, 84, 147
• orientalism 118, 124
• oriental porch 124
• overhang 121
• overthrow 165
• Palladianism 13. 15,76-7, 100-3. 109. 132, 173,190
• pan tile 229
• pane 43
• panel 19
• panels 66, 230
• panelled door 40
• panelling 56
• panels and panelling
• Classical style panels and panelling 29, 24
• doors panels and panelling 40
• Gothic panels and panelling 56, 57
• Modernism panels and panelling 179
• terracotta panels and panelling 156, 157
• timber framing panels and panelling 230
• Tudor and Elizabethan panels and panelling 66, 71
• Tudorbethan panels and panelling 153
• Tudorbethan panelling 153
• pantiles 228, 239
• pantry 80
• parapet 39, 65, 65, 66, 70, 75, 87, 100, 141, 183
• parlour 80
• patera 96, 180
• pavilion 16, 91, 103, 105, 106
• pedimented transept 108
• pedimented transepts 108
• pediment 16
• pediments 61
• Baroque style pediment 96
• broken pediment 14. 97, 150, 152
• Classical style pediment 12, 14, 17, 18
• Edwardian pediment 171
• gables 73
• Georgian pediment 109
• Gothic Revival pediment 156
• Jacobean pediment 78, 87
• open pediment 68, 97, 110, 150, 152, 157
• open & broken segmental pediment 68
• open & broken pediment 150
• Queen Anne style pediment 146
• scrolled pediment 95, 97, 99, 166
• segmental pediment 14, 68, 71, 82, 92-3, 95, 97, 101, 157, 165, 170
• swan-necked pediment 84,182
• peg tile 229
• peg tiles 228, 229
• pendant 139
• Perpendicular style 14, 35, 46, 47, 36, 62, 118, 127
• Perpendicular tracery 56
• piano nobile 15, 16, 106
• Picturesque 116-18, 124
• Picturesque porch 124
• pier 35, 65, 85, 86, 114, 142, 105
• pilaster 17
• pilasters 122
• pierced parapet 66
• blocked pilaster 79, 87, 140
• Caroline & Queen Anne pilaster 101
• Classical style pilaster 14, 17, 24
• fluted pilaster 157
• giant order pilaster 89, 170
• Giant order 180
• Regency pilaster 122
• rusticated pilaster 82
• Victorian pilaster 150, 157
• pillar 59, 63
• piloti 178, 153
• pinnacle 53, 73, 114
• plan 24
• plasterwork 147
• plate 230
• plinth 17, 19, 24, 27, 37, 50, 66, 69, 81, 96, 111
• plinth block 139, 166
• Pointed style 131
• polychrome brick 169
• polychomy 13, 144, 145, 161, 160
• porch 48, 53, 55, 111, 124, 125
• poodle 179
• porter 136
• portico 109, 123, 133
• portico in antis 128
• Portland stone 214
• Portland stone dressing 81
• post 44, 143
• post-Wren tower 28-29
• pre-fab 186
• moulded principal rafter 72
• principal rafter 58
• prior’s lodging 52
• prodigy houses 63
• projecting window 78
• рubs 50-1, 147, 159, 228
• pulpit 61, 132
• pulvinated frieze 82, 97, 110, 167
• purlins 231
• putto 99
• pyramidal roof 149
• quadrant-shaped corner windows 181
• quadripartite ribbed vault 44
• medieval window quarry 43
• quarry 43
• quatrefoil 12, 42, 46, 47, 155, 230
• quatrefoil panel 230
• Queen Anne architecture 88-91, 92-102
• Queen Anne Revival 146-7, 160, 226, 228
• queen post 44
• queen posts 44
• quoin 50, 79, 81, 82, 86, 92
• quoins 81
• quoining 79
• rail 73, 86
• rainwater outlet 183
• rat-trap bond 227
• red brick with stone dressings 150
• rib 45
• ribs 45
• Roman tile 229
• rooftop arcade 100
• round-headed peg tile 229
• rustic 106
• rusticated ground floor 107
• sandstone 225
• scroll 15, 21, 26, 73, 87, 97, 115, 153, 163
• scroll-topped window 99
• scrolled keystone 168
• scrolled pediment 99, 166
• segmental arch 108, 119
• slate 225
• stretcher 227
• stretcher bond 227
• tall studio window 165
• truss 231
• Tudor architecture 60-3, 64-73
• Tudorbethan 77, 153
• turret 66, 78, 79, 80, 150, 151, 165
• Tuscan 20
• Tuscan engaged column 110
• Tuscan Order 12, 13, 30, 63, 110
• segmental pediment 14, 68, 71, 82, 93-3, 97, 101, 157, 165, 170
• two-arched Byzantine window 155
• two-centred 54
• two-centred arch 65
• two-light window 50, 148
• two-light Byzantine round-topped window 140
• two-storey bay 170
• tympanum 17, 18, 41, 73, 81, 115
• Serlian window 103
• shaft 18, 20, 45, 64,78
• shield 27, 50, 156
• shield in spandrel 50
• shouldered window 17
• shouldered windows 37
• concrete shuttering 176, 183
• sill 99, 169
• slate 134, 224
• Soanian arch 123
• spandrel 47, 48, 50, 53, 54-59, 143, 171
• sparrow house window 98, 141
• spire 15, 29, 123, 137
• splayed foot tower 28
• stair 80
• stair tower 18
• stair window 165
• staircase 132
• rafter 44, 58, 72, 230, 231
• steading 108
• ragstone 224
• steeple 91
• railing 178, 180, 182
• railings 180
• random rubble 224
• site-specific 193
• stepped parapet 100
• stepped battlemented parapet 100
• stiff leaf capital 42
• stilted arch 43, 54
• railway stations 133,145
• recessed aedicule 122
• reeding 69
• refectогу 35, 52, 146
• Reformation 62
• The Reform Club 136
• Regency architecture 116-19, 120-9
• Renaissance 13, 60-1, 63, 74, 76, 89, 90
• Renaissance baluster 24
• Renaissance balusters 24, 86
• Renaissance balustrade 67
• Renaissance revival 119, 145
• rendered elevation 81
• reredorter 52
• retrochoir 52
• Revivalism 116, 144-5
• vault rib 44, 45
• roof ridge 1, 120, 148
• ridge tile 233
• ridge tiles with cresting 135
• ridge 50
• ringed column 91
• roll moulding 42
• Romanesque style 12, 14-15. 33. 36-7, 41, 132, 145
• Romanticism 116-18, 119
• rood screen 53, 62, 88, 131
• roofs
• flat roof 178
• medieval roof 44-5, 47.58
• pyramidal roof 149
• railway station roof 133
• slate roof 134
• timber roof 230-1
• Tudor roof 72
• rosette 27
• rotunda 123
• round-topped Norman window 37
• round-topped arch 42
• round-topped Romanesque arch 54
• round-topped Norman arch 54
• round tower 28
• round tower with later octagonal top 28-29
• roundel 169
• rubbed brick 112
• Rundbogenstil 132, 152
• rustication 2, 91, 96, 106, 111, 114, 126, 154
• saddleback tower 28
• saint 59
• sarcophagi 122
• sash window 146, 154, 155
• Saxon window 43
• scalloped & straight tile hanging 229
• scalloped tile hanging 229
• schools 145-6, 100, 101, 164, 172, 150
• scotia 13, 22
• screen 91, 10
• semi-circular Romanesque arch 41
• serpentine bargeboards 157
• servants hall 164
• shallow apron 98
• shallow dome 196
• sphinx 196
• stone 224, 224-5
• stone dressing 78, 81, 92, 134, 150
• stone dressings 78
• stop 40, 69, 138
• stopped fluting 68
• 2 1/2 storeys 94
• storey 15, 16, 94, 136
• strap 151
• strapwork 87
• Strawberry Hill Gothick 105, 113, 118
• string course 36, 80, 94, 107, 135, 137, 148
• strut 24, 231
• stucco 118
• stud 51
• studs 231
• study 121
• studding 51, 231
• studio window 165
• stylobate 18, 20, 109
• sunflower motif 156
• sunflower motif in terracotta panel 156
• swag 27, 99, 111, 114, 153, 168
• swags in tympanum 153
• swan-necked pediment 84, 182
• symmetry 63, 67
• symmetrical plan 67
• tanks & services hidden behind a fin 184
• telephone box 119, 122
• temples 14, 18
• terraced houses 118, 147
• terracotta 64, 65, 145, 156, 157, 171, 228, 238
• terracotta panel 157
• terracotta panels 65
• terracotta panels with heraldic devices 65
• terracotta shaft 64
• three-light window 65, 126
• three-light Gothic window 141
• three-storey bow 114
• tie beam 44, 58, 230, 231
• tiles 135, 143, 228, 238-9
• timber 230-1
• torus 13, 23
• tower of the orders 67, 68
• tower 53, 65
• towers 15, 28-9, 33, 65, 67, 149
• town halls 145, 159
• town planning 104, 118
• Gothic Revival tracery 135, 137
• Gothic windows 35, 38, 46
• plate tracery 35, 38, 43, 149
• Victorian ironwork tracery 142
• tripartite window under a pediment 155
• transept 52, 53
• transom 56, 64, 67, 70, 81
• trefoil 13, 42, 40
• trefoil arch 54
• triglyph 20, 96, 110
• triglyphs 96
• triumphal arch 14, 19, 33, 75
• turret with crown 151
• twelve-light window 113
• two & a half storeys 136
• two doorways 138
• undercroft 49
• urn 17, 101, 114, 115, 123
• vane 79
• vase 27
• vaulting 14, 35, 44-5, 46, 47, 63, 119
• Venetian door 110
• Venetian Gothic
• Venetian Gothic window 141
• Venetian Revival 145
• Venetian window 103, 106, 113, 141
• veranda 118, 129
• vermiculated rustication 114
• vermiculation 112, 114
• vernacular architecture 117, 199-60, 164, 128
• viaduct 142
• Victorian architecture 130-3.134-43, 144-7,148-57
• villas 76, 102, 103, 117, 118, 175, 190-1
• Vitruvian scroll 15, 26
• volute 21, 23, 25, 154
• volutes 154
• voussoir 17, 69, 155, 163
• voussoirs 155, 163
• wall plate 230, 231
• wall post 58
• weather vane 67, 78, 121, 137
• wheel window 155
• bay window 92
• bay windows 47, 70, 78, 93, 134, 140.147
• bow windows 114, 147
• Byzantine windows 140, 155, 109
• casement window 180
• Chinese Chippendale windows 113
• Chinese Chippendale type glazing 113
• Crittall windows 175, 182
• Diocletian window 112
• Diocletian windows 112
• dormer 94, 101, 129, 135, 147, 149
• dormers 94
• Edwardian windows 168-9
• fanlight 110, 111, 125, 170
• Gothic windows 35, 38, 46
• Gothic Revival windows 140, 141
• lancet windows 42
• leaded lights 140
• light 139
• lights 123
• lunette 105, 147
• medieval windows 43, 50, 56-7
• Norman windows 37
• oriel windows 47, 75, 84, 147
• sash windows 146, 154, 155
• Saxon 4
• scroll-topped 99
• shoulder 101
• shouldered 37
• six-panel door 139
• sparrow house 98,141
• studio 105
• Tudor 70-1
• vast iron member 142
• Venetian 103, 106, 115, 141
• Venetian Gothic door 152
• Victorian 140-1, 154-5
• west door 52
• wheel 155
• wildly exaggerated keystone 163
• wrap-around 150
• wrap-around window 180
• wing 16, 103, 105, 104, 164
• wool churches 42
• Y tracery 43
• zig zag moulding 41
• zig zag 41
• ziggurat 2, 182
• Iona granite
• Craigleith sandstone
• Ramshorn sandstone
• Cowcaddens sandstone
• Cambo sandstone
• Penrith sandstone
• Buttermere slate
• Shap granite
• Tadcaster limestone
• Bramley Falls sandstone
• Park Spring sandstone
• Appley Bridge sandstone
• Bolsover limestone
• Mansfield sandstone
• Mow Cop slate
• Bunter sandstone
• Clipsham limestone
• Barnack limestone
• Ketton limestone
• Collyweston limestone
• Snettisham sandstone
• Penrhyn slate
• WEldon limestone
• Taynton limestone
• Leckhampton limestone
• Painswick limestone
• Guiting limestone
• Headington limestone
• Minchinhampton limestone
• Corsham limestone
• Bradford limestone
• Purbeck limestone
• Portland limestone
• Ham Hill limestone
• Ham Hill sandstone
• Beer limestone
• Exeter granite
• Polyphant granite
• Haytor granite
• Aberdeen granite
• Hythe chalk
• Hythe flint

Source Citation
Rice’s Language of Buildings. London, Great Britain: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2009.