Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance

by T. Roger Smith

Fig. w.—Arch Moulding. (Gothic, 12th Century.)

Fig. y.—Arch Moulding. (Decorated, 14th Century.)

Fig. z.—Arch Moulding. (Gothic, 13th Century.)

Niche.—A recess in a wall for a statue, vase, or other upright ornament.

Norman.—The architecture of England from the Norman Conquest till the latter part of the twelfth century.

Ogee.—A moulding or line of part concave and part convex curvature (see Fig. [e], showing an ogee-shaped arch).