Gaine (lit. a sheath): a sculptured decoration of a half-figure, terminating below in a sheath-like pedestal.
Galilee: a porch or chapel, sometimes attached to an English Gothic cathedral, usually at the west end. For the use perhaps of penitents. Compare Narthex.
Gambrel: applied to a roof, the slope of which is bent into an obtuse angle.
Gesso-work: a decorative design in Relief (which see) executed in fine, hard plaster.
Gothic (lit. of, or pertaining to the Goths): a term applied to Mediæval architecture by the Italians of the Renaissance to mark their contempt for what was non-Classic. The term without reproach has been continued to designate the architectural style between the Romanesque and Renaissance, during the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The French have tried to substitute the term, Ogival. See Ogee.
Grille: a wrought metal screen of openwork design.
Grisaille: a style of painting in greyish tones, in imitation of bas-relief.
Groin: the angle or edge at which the surfaces of a cross or groined vault meet. See Vault.
Groined Vault: See Vault.
Guilloche (pr. Gil-losh): an ornament composed of the repeated intertwining of two or more bands; frequently used to decorate a Torus (which see).