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Angle volute
Whitehall, London
A pair of volutes or spiral scrolls turned outwards to meet at the corner of a capital, especially an Ionic capital.Anglo-SaxonThe architecture of the 7th to mid-11th centuries, i.e.
arrangement with two half volutes at right angles to one another, which was not of much importance under the portico, but when, in the open peristyle of the Pompeian house, it faced the open court, another design was necessary, and the angle volute ...
 See also: Portico, Volute, Greek, Architecture, Scroll
  
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