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ballflower
A globular motif often used in concave moldings of English Gothic architecture. It looks like a flower with three (or sometimes four) petals nearly closed over a central ball. See also other repetative decorative motifs ...
apophyge or hypophyge, apse or apsis, apteral, arcade, arcature, arch, architrave, archivolt, arcuation, arris, articulation, astragal, atlas (plural atlantes) or telamon, atrium, attic, baguette or baguet, balcony, baldachin, balk, ballflower, ...
Those of the last-named period are much richer, and are generally decorated with crockets and finials, and sometimes with ballflowers. Very fine groups are found at Beverley Minster and at the rise of the spire of St Marys, Oxford.
Beam projecting horizontally for opening and closing lock gates.BalconetteA small balcony or window-guard attached to an individual window.BaldacchinoFree-standing canopy, originally fabric, over an altar. Compare ciborium.Ballflower ...
 See also: Architecture, Decorated, Balcony, Castle, Flower
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