Glossary
- abacus
- abutment
- acanthus
- acroterion
- aedicula
- aedicule
- aisle
- almshouse
- altar
- altar-frontal
- ambulatory
- amphiprostyle
- ancon
- angle buttress
- Anglo-Saxon
- angular capital
- annulet
- antæ
- antefix
- antependium
- anthemion
- antis
- apron
- apse
- Arabesque
- araeostyle
- arcade
- arcading
- arch
- arch stone
- arched brace
- architrave
- architrave block
- architrave-cornice
- archivolt
- arcuated
- arris
- arrow loop
- Artisan Mannerism
- ashlar
- ashlar pieces
- ashlaring
- astragal
- astylar
- atlantes
- attached column
- attic
- attic base
- attic order
- aumbry
- aureole
- bagnette
- baguette
- bailey
- balcony
- baldachino
- ball flower
- baluster
- baluster mullion
- balustrade
- banded column
- banded rustication
- bar tracery
- barbican
- baroque
- barrel vault
- bartizan
- base
- base court
- basement
- basilica
- bas-relief
- bastion
- batter
- battlement
- bay
- bay leaf
- bay window
- bead
- bead and reel
- beakhead
- beam
- bed mould
- bed moulding
- belfry
- bell capital
- bell tower
- bell-cote
- belvedere
- bench ends
- billet
- blade
- blind arcade
- blind tracery
- block capital
- blocking course
- bolection molding
- bond
- boss
- bow window
- bowtell
- box pew
- braces
- bracket
- brattishing
- breastsummer
- bressummer
- brickwork
- broach
- broach stop
- broken pediment
- bucranium
- bull’s eye window
- butment
- buttery
- buttress
- cable moulding
- cabling
- Caernarvon arch
- caisson
- camber
- campanile
- canephora
- canopy
- canopy of honour
- cantilever
- cap
- capital
- Carolean
- cartouche
- caryatid
- casement
- casino
- castellated
- Castle
- Castle style
- cathedra
- caulicoli
- cavetto
- ceilure
- cell
- cella
- cellure
- celure
- centering
- chair-rail
- chamfer
- chamfered rustication
- chancel
- chancel arch
- chancel screen
- chantry chapel
- chapter house
- chequer work
- chevet
- chevron
- chimney-breast
- chimney-corner
- chimney-piece
- chimney-stack
- chinoiserie
- choir
- Church
- ciborium
- cill
- cincture
- cinquefoil
- circus
- clasping buttress
- classicism
- clearstory
- clerestory
- cloister
- close studding
- clustered column
- coade stone
- cob
- coffer
- coign
- collar beam
- colonnade
- colonnette
- Colossal order
- columbarium
- column
- columna rostrata
- common rafter
- composite order
- compound pier
- congé
- console
- coping
- corbel
- corbel table
- corbelling
- corbie-step gable
- Corinthian order
- cornice
- corona
- cottage ornée
- couple roof
- coursed rubble
- court
- cove
- coving
- cradle roof
- crenel
- crenelle
- crescent
- crest tile
- cresting
- crinkle crankle
- crocket
- crocket capital
- crocketing
- cross vault
- cross window
- crossing
- Crown
- crown steeple
- crow-step
- crow-step gable
- crucks
- crypt
- cupola
- curtail step
- Curtain Wall
- curvilinear tracery
- cushion capital
- cushioned frieze
- cusp
- cut string
- cutwater
- cyma
- cyma recta
- cyma reversa
- cymatium
- dado
- dagger
- dais
- decastyle
- Decorated
- demi-column
- dentil
- diagonal buttress
- diagonal ribs
- diaper
- diastyle
- die
- Diocletian window
- dipteral
- discharching arch
- distyle
- dodecastyle
- dog tooth
- doglegged stair
- dome
- domical vault
- donjon
- Doric order
- dormer
- double framed roof
- double-framed roof
- dovecot
- drawbridge
- dressings
- drip
- dripstone
- drop
- drop arch
- drop tracery
- drops
- drum
- dutch gable
- Early English
- Easter sepulcher
- eaves
- echinus
- edge moulding
- egg and anchor
- egg and dart
- egg and tongue
- Egyptian hall
- Egyptian Revival
- elevation
- Elizabethan
- elliptical arch
- embattled
- embrasure
- encaustic tile
- enceinte
- engaged column
- English bond
- entablature
- entasis
- entresol
- equilateral arch
- escutcheon
- Etruscan Style
- eustyle
- exedra
- extrados
- extruded corners
- eye
- eye-catcher
- façade
- facing
- fan vault
- fanlight
- fascia
- fenestration
- feretory
- ferme ornée
- festoon
- fielded panel
- fillet
- finial
- fireplace
- Flamboyant tracery
- fleche
- Flemish bond
- fleuron
- flowing tracery
- flushwork
- flutes
- fluting
- flying buttress
- foil
- foliated
- folly
- font
- formerets
- fortress
- fosse
- four-centered Tudor arch
- frater
- French window
- fret
- frieze
- frontispiece
- frosted
- gable
- gablet
- gadroon
- gaililee
- gallery
- galletting
- gambrel roof
- garderobe
- gargoyle
- garreting
- gauged brickwork
- gazebo
- geometrical stair
- geometrical tracery
- Georgian
- giant order
- Gibbs Surround
- glyphs
- Gothic
- Gothic revival
- Greek Key
- Greek revival
- groin
- groined vault
- grotesque
- grotto
- guilloche
- guttæ
- hagioscope
- half-hipped roof
- half-timber construction
- hall
- hall church
- hammer beam
- haunch
- header
- heading bond
- helix
- helm roof
- herm
- herringbone work
- Hertfordshire spike
- hexastyle
- hip
- hipped gable
- hipped roof
- hollow chamfer
- hood
- hood-mould
- horseshoe arch
- impost
- in antis
- inglenook
- intercolumniation
- intermediate ribs
- intersected tracery
- intrados
- Ionic order
- Jacobean
- jamb
- jetty
- jib door
- joist
- keel moulding
- keep
- Kentish tracery
- key pattern
- keystone
- king post
- knapped flint
- Kneeler
- label
- label stop
- lacunar
- Lady chapel
- lancet
- lancet arch
- lantern
- lattice
- lean-to roof
- leper’s window
- lesene
- lich gate
- lierne ribs
- lierne vault
- lights
- linenfold panelling
- lintel
- listel
- loggia
- long and short work
- long gallery
- look-out tower
- loop window
- loophole
- louver
- louvre
- lowside window
- lozenge
- lucarne
- luffer
- lunette
- lych gate
- machicolation
- mandorla
- manor house
- mansard roof
- mantel
- mantelshelf
- masonry
- mausoleum
- medallion
- merlon
- metope
- mews
- mezzanine
- minstrel gallery
- misericord
- mitre
- moat
- modillion
- module
- motte
- mouchette
- moulded chamfer
- mouldings
- mullion
- muntin
- mutule
- nailhead
- narthex
- nave
- neck
- necking
- needle spire
- Neo-Classical
- newel
- newel stair
- niche
- nogging
- Norman
- nosing
- obelisk
- octastyle
- oculus
- oeil-de-boeuf
- off-set
- ogee arch
- ogee moulding
- open newel stair
- open pediment
- open well stair
- optical refinement
- orangery
- oratory
- Order
- oriel window
- outer string
- overdoor
- overhang
- oversiling course
- ovolo
- pad stone
- Palladian
- Palladian motif
- palmette
- panel tracery
- paneling
- panes
- pantile
- parapet
- parclose
- pargetting
- parvis
- patera
- Pavilion
- pedestal
- pediment
- peel
- pele
- pendant
- pendentive
- peripteral
- peristyle
- perpendicular
- perpendicular tracery
- perron
- persians
- pew
- piano nobile
- piazza
- picturesque
- pier
- pilaster
- pilaster strip
- pillar
- pillar piscina
- pinnacle
- piscina
- plate tracery
- platform
- plinth
- plinth block
- ploughshare vault
- podium
- pointed arch
- pointing
- poppyhead
- porch
- portal
- portcullis
- porte-cochere
- portico
- portico in antis
- Post Conquest architecture
- postern
- predella
- presbytery
- priest’s door
- principal rafter
- print room
- profile
- prostyle
- prostyle portico
- Protectorate Style
- pseudodipteral
- pseudoperipteral
- pulpit
- pulpitum
- pulvinated frieze
- purlin
- putto
- pycnostyle
- pyramid
- quadrangle
- quadripartite vault
- quarrel
- quarry
- quarry tile
- quatrefoil
- Queen Anne Style
- queen post
- quirk
- quoin
- rabbet
- radiating chapels
- rafter
- rail
- rainwater head
- ramp
- rampart
- rampart walk
- random rubble
- rebate
- rectilinear tracery
- reeding
- refectory
- Regency
- regula
- relieving arch
- rendering
- re-pointing
- reredos
- respond
- retable
- retaining wall
- reticulated tracery
- retro-choir
- return
- reveal
- reverse ogee
- revetment
- rib vault
- ribbed vault
- ribs
- ridge
- ridge rib
- rise
- riser
- rock faced
- Rococo
- roll
- roll moulding
- Roman order
- Romanesque
- rood loft
- rood screen
- rood stairs
- roof
- rope moulding
- rose window
- rosette
- rostral column
- rotunda
- roundel
- rubble masonry
- running dog
- rustication
- sacristy
- saddle bar
- saddleback roof
- sanctuary
- Sanctus bell-cote
- sash
- Saxon
- scagliola
- scalloped capital
- scarp
- scotia
- screen
- screens passage
- scroll moulding
- scrolled pediment
- sedilia
- segmental arch
- segmental pediment
- semicircular arch
- serlian motif
- Serliana
- setback buttress
- severy
- sexpartite vault
- shaft
- shaft ring
- shaped gable
- shell keep
- shouldered arch
- shouldered architrave
- sill
- singing gallery
- single framed roof
- single-framed roof
- skewback
- skirting
- skirting block
- slate hanging
- snecked rubble
- soffit
- solar
- sole plate
- sollar
- Solomonic order
- sopraporte
- sounding board
- span
- spandrel
- speer
- spiral column
- spiral stair
- spire
- spirelet
- splay
- spring
- springer
- springing
- springing line
- springing point
- sprocket
- spur
- spur stone
- square
- squinch
- squinch arch
- squint
- staddle stones
- stair
- stalls
- standing
- steeple
- stellar vault
- stiff leaf
- stile
- stilted arch
- stilted vault
- stop
- stopped chamfer
- stoup
- strainer arch
- strapwork
- stretcher
- striges
- string
- string course
- strut
- studs
- stylobate
- summer
- sunk chamfer
- surbase
- swag
- swelled frieze
- systyle
- Tabernacle
- tabernacle work
- telamones
- template
- Temple
- templet
- tenia
- term
- terminal figure
- terrace
- tessellated pavement
- tester
- tetrastyle
- thatch
- therm window
- three-centered arch
- three-centred arch
- throat
- throating
- tie beam
- tiercerons
- tile hanging
- timber framing
- torus
- tower
- trabeated
- tracery
- transept
- transom
- transverse rib
- transverse rib
- tread
- trefoil
- trefoil arch
- tribune
- triforium
- triglyph
- trophy
- trumeau
- truss
- Tudor
- Tudor flower
- tunnel vault
- turret
- Tuscan base
- Tuscan Order
- tympanum
- undercroft
- valley
- vane
- vault
- vaulting shaft
- Venetian door
- Venetian window
- veranda
- verandah
- verge boards
- vermiculated
- vermiculation
- Vernacular style
- vesica piscis
- vestry
- vice
- vice stair
- villa
- vise
- Vitruvian opening
- Vitruvian scroll
- volute
- voussoir
- vys
- wagon roof
- wagonhead vault
- wainscot
- wall
- wall arcade
- wall plate
- wall post
- wall ribs
- wall string
- ward
- water leaf
- water table
- wattle and daub
- wave scroll
- weather boarding
- weathering
- weathervane
- web
- well
- well hole
- wheel window
- wind braces
- winder
- winding stair
- Y-tracery
- zig-zag
Source Citation
Harris, John and Jill Lever. Illustrated Glossary of Architecture, 850-1830. New York, NY; Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. 1966.
Key Facts
At time of upload on January 19, 2025: