Eaves-course.—A moulding carrying the eaves.
Elevation.—(1) A geometrical drawing of part of the exterior or interior walls of a building; (2) the architectural treatment of the exterior or interior walls of a building.
Elizabethan.—The architecture of England in, and for some time after, the reign of Elizabeth.
Embattled.—Finished with battlements, or in imitation of battlements.
Enrichments.—The carved (or coloured) decorations applied to the mouldings or other features of an architectural design. (See Mouldings.)
Entablature (in Classic and Renaissance architecture).—The superstructure above the columns where an order is employed. It is divided into the architrave, which rests on the columns, the frieze and the cornice.
Façade.—The front of a building or of a principal part of a building.
Fan Vault.—The vaulting in use in England in the fifteenth century, in which a series of conoids bearing some resemblance to an open fan are employed.
Fillet.—A small moulding of square flat section.