GLOSSARY.

Abacus	The flat slab on the top of a capital.
Ambulatory	The processional aisle at the back of the high altar.
Apse	The eastern termination—semicircular or polygonal—of a choir or its aisles, or of a transept.
Arcade	A series of arches.
Pier-arcade	The piers and arches separating the side-aisles from the central aisle or nave.
Battlement	A notched or indented parapet.
Bay	The space between two piers from the floor to the roof.
Bosses	The ornamented keystones of a vault.
Buttress	A projecting support to a wall.
Cathedral	Any church, large or small, which contains the seat (cathedra) of a bishop.
Chantry-chapels	Private chapels; in which were chanted masses for the repose of the soul of the founder of the chapel.
Chevet	The ring of chapels round the east end of a choir or its aisles: e.g. Westminster.
Choir	(1) That part of the church where the clergy or monks sat. (2) The whole eastern limb of the church.
Clerestory	The upper story of a church. Also the row of windows in the upper story.
Corbel	A bracket of stone or wood.
Corbel-table	A row of corbels supporting a parapet or a projecting roof.
Crockets	Tufts of leaves arranged in bands.
Crossing	The space where nave and transepts intersect. Above it is often a central tower.
Crypt	The underground portion of a church.
Cusps	Spikes in the tracery of a window.
Dripstone	A projection running round the head of a window to throw off the rain.
Eaves	That part of a roof which overhangs the wall.
Elevation	(1) A geometrical drawing (i.e. not in perspective) of a vertical portion of a building. (2) The portion so drawn.
Façade	The principal external elevation of a building.
Feretory	(1) A portable shrine. (2) That part of the church which contained the pedestal of the shrine: e.g. Winchester; also called Saint’s Chapel.
Fillet	A narrow projecting stone band, like a piece of tape; square in section.
Flying buttresses	Tilted arches rising from the buttresses of the aisles to the clerestory wall to resist the thrusts of the high vault.
Gargoyle	A projecting water-spout.
Groined vault	A vault which, instead of ribs, has sharp edges or arrises.
Hood-moulding	An ornamental dripstone employed in interiors; especially over pier-arches.
Jambs	The sides of a window or doorway.
Label	A dripstone over the exterior of a doorway.
Lancets	Sharp, pointed windows; in the shape of a surgeon’s lancet.
Lierne-vault	Any vault which contains liernes: i.e., tie-ribs on the surface, which do not spring from an abacus, nor rise to the central boss.
Miserere	A carved bracket beneath the movable seat of a stall.
Moulding	Any architectural member is said to be moulded when its edge or surface presents continuous lines of alternate projections and recesses.
Mullions	Vertical bars in a window.
Nave	The western limb of a church, (1) including or (2) excluding its aisles.
Ogee arch	An arch, each side of which has a double curve; the upper part concave, the lower part convex.
Order	A compound arch is one which is built up of two or more Orders, or sub-arches, usually recessed.
Parapet	A low wall, not embattled, but with a horizontal upper surface, at the foot of a roof.
Piers	The supports of arches; sometimes cylindrical, sometimes polygonal; sometimes clusters of columns; sometimes masses of masonry ornamented with shafts.
Pilaster	A flattened column.
Pinnacles	Small spires employed to weight buttresses, etc.
Plinth	The pedestal of the base of a pier or shaft or wall.
Piscina	A water-drain, appertaining to the high altar. (1) A niche. (2) A shaft. (3) An opening in the pavement.
Presbytery	(1) The sanctuary only. (2) The whole of the space between the ritual choir and the east end: e.g., York and Lincoln and Ely—i.e., sanctuary plus retro-choir.
Quadripartite vault	One in which each compartment is divided into four cells by diagonal ribs.
Quatrefoil	An ornament with four lobes.
Refectory	The dining-hall or frater of a monastery.
Reredos	The screen at the back of a high altar: e.g., Winchester.
Ribs	The arcs which intersect to support the filling-in of a vault.
Romanesque	The style of Northern architecture intermediate between that of the Early Christian Basilican churches and that of the Gothic cathedrals. Anglo-Norman or Norman is one of its geographical subdivisions.
Roll	A rounded projecting moulding.
Rood	The crucifix.
Rood-loft	A beam, carrying the rood, placed above the rood-screen. The place of the rood-screen was at the west end of the ritual choir.
Sanctuary	The space between the ritual choir and the high altar.
Sedilia	Seats for the priest and his assistants on the south side of the sanctuary.
Sexpartite vault	One in which each compartment is divided into six cells by four diagonal and two intermediate ribs.
Shaft	A slender column. Vaulting-shafts supported a vault or ceiling.
Spandrils	The triangular spaces on either side of an arch.
Splay	A window-jamb which slants outwardly or inwardly from the glass.
Springers	The lower stones of the ribs of a vault.
Stilted arch	An arch elevated above the abacus by vertical masonry.
String-course or String	A projecting moulding, usually horizontal, running along a wall.
Thrust	The pressure exerted laterally and downward by an arch or vault.
Tracery	The straight or curved bars of stone which separate the lights in the arched part of a window.
Transept	A cross-arm of a church.
Transoms	Horizontal cross-bars of stone in a window.
Trefoil	An ornament with three lobes.
Triforium	(1) The space between the vault and the lean-to roof of an aisle. (2) The arcade in front of it. The triforium-space often forms a Blind Story.
Tympanum	(1) The space between the lintel and arch of a doorway. (2) The space enclosed by the triangular outline of a gable.
Vault	An inner roof of stone.
Voussoir	Each stone in an arch or rib is a voussoir. The principal voussoir is the keystone, which may be enlarged so as to form a boss, or still further enlarged so as to form a pendant.

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