Blocked

Blocked
- term applied to columns, pilasters etc that are interrupted by regular projecting blocks, eg to the sides of a Gibbs surround.

A partially blocked squint at Grendon church
A hagioscope (from Gr. άγιος, holy, and σκοπός, to see) or squint, in architecture, is an opening through the wall of a church in an oblique direction, ...

The pipe run is blocked at the top and bottom with screw plugs, then air is pumped in until 100 mm of water gauge is shown on glass U-gauge. The test is satisfactory if the pressure does not drop below 75 mm within 5 minutes.

The remains comprise the southern wall of the present mosque which contains blocked-up windows alternating with round-arched niches with shell-like hoods. Both niches and windows are framed by engaged colonettes.

U-V Block Measures the amount of damaging ultraviolet light that is blocked from being transmitted through the glass.

A capital shaped like a cube with rounded convex lower parts, common in Norman architecture.Blocked ...

Airbrick A perforated brick built into a wall for providing ventilation. Used, for instance, to ventilate the underside of timber ground floors, blocked fireplaces or a roof space.

Gothic structures sprouted throughout England, Spain, Germany, and Belgium, and the influence of French Gothic rolled outward through the Christian world under King Louis IX (Saint Louis, 1226-1270) to be blocked only in Italy, south of Milan, ...

secret underground shelters were supposedly built to connect the President's residence with the rest of the complex. The paranoia of the era gave rise to fears that counter-revolutionaries might use the passageways, so the exits were hastily blocked ...

See also: House, Architecture, Well, Brick, Norma