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Glossary

Index                                                                                                       

Architectural Heritage Dossier

covering Thornton, (FY5), Lancashire

  

Compiled by Mike Pollard, 2009   Second Issue

 

Bay window of one or more storeys projecting from the face of a building.
Belfry room or stage in a tower where the bells are hung.
Bracketed small supporting piece to carry a projecting horizontal member.
Buttress vertical member projecting from a wall to stabilise it or resist lateral thrust.
Canted tilted, generally on a vertical axis to produce an obtuse angle on plan.
Casement window hinged at side.
Console ornamental bracket of curved outline.
Coped course of stones on top of wall, cappings.

Corbels

 

 block of stone projecting from a wall, supporting some  feature on it’s horizontal top surface.
Cornice moulded ledge projecting along the top of a building or feature.
Cupola small dome on a circular or polygonal base crowning a roof.
Crockets leafy knobs on the edges of a feature.
Dormer window standing up vertically from the slope of a roof.
Dressings smoothly worked stones projecting from the wall, sometimes different colour or texture.
Embrasure an opening in a wall for firing through.
Fascia plain horizontal band.
Finial decorative topmost feature above a gable spire or cupola.
Fleche slender spire on the centre of a roof, sometimes a vent.
Gable area of wall, often triangular, at the end of a double pitched roof.
Gargoyles carved or shaped water spout projecting from the parapet of a wall or tower.
Geometric consisting chiefly of circles.
Gothic period of medieval architecture characterised by the use of the pointed arch.
Hip roof with sloped instead of vertical ends.
Hooded moulding above an arch or lintel.
Keystone middle or topmost stone in an arch.
Lancets slender pointed arch window.
Lintel horizontal stone or beam bridging an opening.
Louvre series of overlapping boards placed within a window opening.
Lucarne small window in a roof or spire.
Modillion small consoles at regular intervals along the underside of a cornice.
Mullion vertical member between the lights of a window or opening.
Overlight upper window section, above a transom or door.
Parapet wall for protection at a sudden drop.
Pediment formalised gable derived from that of a temple, also used over doors or windows.
Pilaster representation of a classical column in flat relief against a wall.
Pinnacles tapering finial on a buttress or tower, sometimes dressed with crockets.
Pitched roof with vertical ends.
Plinth projecting base beneath a wall or column.
Purlin a horizontal longitudinal timber.
Quoins dressed stones at the corners of a building.
Rendered uniform covering, often painted, to give weather protection.
Return The sides of a building.
Sill band   continuation of a window sill across the surface of a wall.
Sill horizontal member at the bottom of a window or doorframe.
Soffit underside of an arch or eaves.
Soldier course row of vertically placed bricks, often directly above a window or door for it’s full width or used to mimic sill bands.
String course   

stone course or moulding projecting from the surface of a wall.

 

Tracery intersecting ribwork in the upper part of a window.
Transom horizontal member between the lights in a window opening.
Trusses framework for supporting a roof.