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Band/Plat-band
a flat projecting horizontal strip of masonry or brickwork across the face of a building, as distinct from a moulded string.
Barge-boards ...
band - any flat horizontal course that projects slightly from a wall
bargeboard - ornamental board on a gable used to conceal the end rafters
bay window - a protruding space from the exterior wall. A bow window is a rounded bay.
Band/ribbon: One of a horizontal series of three windows or more, separated only by mullions, that form a horizontal band across the facade of a building Most commonly found in buildings erected after 1900.
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Rib Band - A board set into the inside face of the stud to support a second floor joist.
Ridge - The top- most portion of a roof from which roof sides fall away.
Ridge board - A decorative board standing on edge, along the ridge of a roof.
Band
A continuous horizontal molding or fascia around a building or on a wall that makes a division in the wall.
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BAND
Horizontal decorative element, often used to indicate floor levels.
BARGE BOARD
Decorative or plain trim attached to the eaves of a gable.
In band
- also referred to as batchelor slates, are narrow slates which sometimes have to be inserted into courses to maintain the proper width of side lap.
Slate Terminology Diagam ...
An iron band is frequently used in geometrical stairs to give extra strength and stiffness to the handrail. It is generally about 4 in. thick, being screwed into a groove formed in the underside of the handrail.
A narrow band with a vertical face. Fillets are often interposed between curved mouldings.
Fillet, Sunk
A fillet that is depressed between two other architectural elements.
Frieze - Band (often decorative) below cornice
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gable - a triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof ...
Frieze - A band with designs or carvings along a wall or above doorways and windows.
Frost Line - The under ground level that frost will reach during the coldest days in a given locality.
A horizontal band of projecting stonework on the surface of a wall.
Tester
Also called a sounding board. Structure over a pulpit to direct sound forward.
A narrow flat band running down a medieval shaft or along a roll moulding. It separates larger curved mouldings in classical cornices, fluting or bases.FinialTopmost ornamental feature, e.g. above a spire, gable or cupola.
Margin - Band at the edge of stone blocks.
Marseilles tiles - Reddish, unglazed, terra-cotta tiles in a distinctive corrugated pattern which were originally imported from Marseilles, France in the 1880s and were soon made in Australia.
the ornamental band or molding surrounding the tympanum of a Romanesque or Gothic church.
Arena
the central area in a Roman amphitheater where gladiatorial spectacles took place.
1. A subtle band of red and green Christmas lights defines the shape of the roof.
2. White icicle lights illuminate the eaves.
3. Narrow strings of white lights accent many of the window muntins.
Lombard band A decorative feature of some Romanesque architecture, originating in Lombardy, consisting of a row of small blind arches divided by vertical pilasters. louver (spelled louvre in British English).
Archivolts
A band or moulding that surrounds an arched opening. Also see: jamb, tympanum.
Articulated / Articulation
An object, especially a building, that is visually defined, normally by using distinct architectural features.
FRIEZE - Decorated band along the upper part of an interior wall.
FROG - A depression imprinted in the upper surface of a brick, to save clay, reduce weight and increase the strength of the wall. Bricks should always be laid frog uppermost.
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FRIEZE
A decorative band usually placed along the top of a wall. Stencils cut from cow hides were used by workers to create repeated patterns such as this Greek key or stepped fret pattern.
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STRING COURSE A band running horizontally across a facade. It often marks, on the exterior, the internal floor levels.
TORUS A pronounced convex moulding.
TRACERY Dividing bars, often forming ornamental patterns, in a Gothic window.
He undertook the journey at once with the support of an honest band of servants and arrived quickly and piously at the city of Aix.
Band Course - A string Course
Band Saw - A power saw with a continuous steel belt driven around two three pulleys.
Slight eave overhang with wide band of trim below
Roof-top cupolas
Rectangular transom lights and sidelights
Pilasters to sides of doors (may have pediment)
Pediment (doors, triangular only)
Classical one story or two story columns ...
Fillet - narrow flat band.
Finial - a slender piece of stone used to decorate the tops of the merlons, spire, tower, balustrade, etc.
Fluting - concave mouldings in parallel.
Foliated - carved with leaves.
In some cases the projecting band has never had the sinkings cut into it to divide up the dentils, as in the Pantheon at Rome, and it is then called a dentil-band.
Identifying features include low-pitched gable or hip roof; front-facing triangular pediment; wide-band trim at cornice line of the roof; porticos, entry porches, or full-width porches supported by prominent square or rounded columns; ...
A horizontal band with cornice above and architrave below. In the Doric order it consists of metope - a square panel sculpted with figures - and triglyph - panels with three vertical grooves.
IDENTIFYING FEATURES: Gable or hipped, low-pitch roof; dentil cornice emphasized with wide band of trim -- cornice represents classical entablature (includes cornice, frieze, architrave); porches: square or rounded columns (usually Doric), ...
South of the desert is band of semi-arid country known as the Sahel (Arabic for coast) where there is an intermittent vegetation of scrub and occasional small trees.
Regulus - The short band between the tenia and guttae on a Doric entablature.
Rendering - The plastering of an outer wall.
Reredos - A wall or screen, usually of wood or stone, rising behind an altar, and as a rule decorated.
Fillet - a thin, horizontal band in a straight profile, usually found on a cornice, architrave, or entablature, for decoration.
Foliate Capital - a capital decorated with foliage elements.
Frieze - an elongated carved architectural decoration.
egg and dart An ornamental band molding of egg forms alternating with dart forms.
elevation An exterior face of a building; also, a drawing thereof.
enframement A general term referring to any elements surrounding a window or door.
frieze - an ornamental horizontal band or strip in a wall
gable - (1) that part of the wall, triangular in shape, defined by the sloping sides of a double pitch or gable roof; (2) the end wall of a building.
glazing - the glass in a window ...
fascia: a plain horizontal band in an architrave which may incorporate two or three such bands, decorated in some Corinthian examples.
fenestration: the arrangement of windows in a facade.
fret A geometrical pattern of horizontal and vertical lines making a pattern band. Also called a "meander" or a "greek key"
frieze The middle portion of an entablature, or any decorated horizontal band.
It comprises a strap like interlaced band of leather or a ribbon resembling material interlaced and used to connect various pieces of Iconography.
Entablature -- The band of moldings near the top of a facade, divided into cornice, frieze, and architrave.
Facade -- The face or front of a building.
Annually, I participate in the District Solo and Ensamble Festival. For the past two years, I have preformed in the District XII Junior Band. I am now a member of the Chantilly High School Symphonic Winds and the Chantilly High Marching Band.
FASCIAa plain horizontal band
FINIALa vertical ornament usually applied to the peak of dormer
GABLEtriangular top portion of an end wall where there is a sloping roof ...
belt course - a narrow horizontal band projecting from the exterior walls of a building, usually defining the location of interior floor levels.
Frieze - Any sculpture or richly ornamental band in a building.
Frontage - The extent of a building or of land along a public road or a public waterway.
Shaft ring
A characteristically Early English-style moulded band around a shaft. Used to cover the joints between the sections of a detached shaft, but also as a decorative feature.
STRING COURSE A continuous projecting horizontal band set in the surface of a wall and usually molded. Often in a different coloured brick or stone, and used for decoration.
clerestory, pronounced clear story, is a high wall with a band of narrow windows along the very top. The clerestory wall usually rises above adjoining roofs. Originally, the word clerestory referred to the upper level of a church or cathedral.
The simplest and plainest of the three main classical orders, featuring a frieze with triglyphs and metopes. A Roman Doric column has a simple round capital with a narrow neck band and a plain or fluted shaft.
frieze:
a plain or decorated horizontal part of an entablature between the architrave and the cornice; any decorative horizontal band, as along the upper part of wall in a room ...
A decorative band of varied contour, used to trim structural members, wall planes, and openings. Crown molding is decorative molding where the wall and ceiling meet or the uppermost molding along furniture or cabinetry.
dominating feature that helps to distinguish an Italianate building are the large bracketed eaves underneath the roof. They appear in a near infinite variety of styles and sizes. Usually they're paired and placed underneath a deep trim band.
glazed above and panelled below, but nowadays usually all glass Fretwork Apattern of interlaced, geometric openwork decoration, usually cut in thin timber by means of a fret-saw, and sometimes made of metal Frieze A continuous band of ...
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