Architecture terms

dado rail

"chair rail"; just out on bottom third of wall

sash window

2 seperate windows of timber; slides up and down

parapet

barrier which is an extension of the wall at the edge of a roof hiding what is behind it

plinth

base or platform upon which a column, pedestal, statue, monument or structure rests

flat arches

brick over window that holds weight

kentish ragstone

hard, grey/yellow/brown limestone; not for carving; for security

rails

horizontal members of wall panel

sculpted bosses

knob of stone (or wood) in an intersection of a vault

portico

like a porch

dentils

lots of little squares/teeth

telamon

male version of caryatid

modillion

ornate bracket (corbel) underneath cornice, more intricate than dentils

transverse rib

rib of a rib vault which is carried across the main body of the arch

girders

roofing of trainsheds, beams that extend across

carved modillion

scroll bracket

cherubs

sculpted

fanlight

semicircle decoration around door; keyblock on top

aedicules

small shrine

spandrels

space between two arches or between an arch and a rectangular enclosure

vice staircase

spiral staircase

voussoir

stone around outsie of door; in Georgian houses, typically vermiculated

capital

the head of a column

piloti

thin support columns

styles

vertical members of wall panel

portland stone

white grey limestone, very uniform, used in many public buildings