canopy - cover with a canopy
cover - provide with a covering or cause to be covered; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers"
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Canopy
An ornamental projection over doors, windows and openings or, in Gothic architecture, elaborate coverings over niches and figures.
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Canopy - A projection or hood over a door, window, niche, etc.
Cantilever - A projecting elements, such as a beam or porch, supported at a single point or along a single line by a wall or column, ...
Canopy - A hood suspended or projected over a door, window, tomb, altar, pulpit, niche, etc.
Sant' Apolinare in Classe Ravenna Italy (5th C.)
Capital - The head or crowning feature of a column.
Canopy - A protective roof. See porch.
Capitals - The carved stone which caps a column or pier and which forms the transition between the shape of the column and the arches over it.
Censers - A vessel in which incense is burned.
canopy
A roof like structure usually supported on pillars or projecting from a wall, and serving rather a decorative than a protective purpose.
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Canopy: A decorated rooflike projection or a richly decorated baldachin over a statue (fig.3, F).
Capital: Architectural element that surmounts a column or any other vertical support (fig.5, B).
Canopy.
Projecting sounding board over a pulpit or a hood or projection over an altar, niche statue etc.
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Canopy
A draped covering of fabric suspended over a piece of furniture and supported by four posts.
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Canopy : An overhanging shade or shelter above an artwork or statue, sometimes situated upon pillars.
Capital : The upper element of an architectural pillar, often finely decorated in Romanesque and Early Gothic structures.
Canopy/Scallop/Tympanum Illustrations
A canopied doorpiece in Durham.
Note the scalloped detail within the tympanum.
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a canopy or canopylike structure above an altar or throne.
Balustrade
a series of balusters, or upright pillars, supporting a rail (as along the edge of a balcony or bridge).
Ciborium
A canopy, often free-standing and supported by four columns, that is erected over an altar. (pr. sih-bor'ee-um).
Cinqfoil
A shape with five-lobes, a plan with 5 apses. Compare with trefoil, quatrefoil, hexafoil, etc.
Typical Decorated Canopy. From Exeter.
Nos. I., II., III., IV., VI. are taken from illustrations in Lewis F. Day, Windows, by permission of B. T. Batsford.
Ciborium: A box in which the Host (wafers or bread for the Eucharist) is kept; A canopy resting on columns over the altar. Cinqfoil: A five-lobed ornamental shape.
cornice or sloping roof ENGAGED COLUMN: a column attached to, or partly sunk into, a wall or pier EYE: the center of a volute FACADE: the front of face or a building, emphasized architecturally FINIAL: a formal ornament at the top of a canopy, gable, ...
baldachin A richly ornamented canopy structure supported by columns, suspended from a roof, or projected from a wall, as over an altar.
The state bed (illustration, right), a lit à la Duchesse-its canopy supported without visible posts- was delivered for the use of Queen Marie Leszczinska at Versailles, as the centrepiece of a new decor realized for the Queen in 1730-35.
Canopy - A covering hung over a throne or bed.
Canteen - Refreshment room.
Cantilever - Any structural part of a building that projects beyond its support and overhang.
Capital - Head or top part of the column.
" The positioning of the Lamb in relationship to the canopy above the head of St. Erhard presents a nice parallel to the chancel dome of San Vitale. The Agnus Dei is the allegorical representation of Christ's sacrifice commemorated in the Mass.
Tester(lit. head): Flat canopy over a tomb or pulpit, where it is also called a sounding-board.
In the Fatimid period minbars are built with a doorway at the entrance to the stairway and a domed canopy above the platform. The best example of this type is that in the Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem built for Nur al-Din in 1168.
ROSTRUM and TESTER
Pulpit and overhead canopy. The dove hanging from the canopy symbolizes the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost. The canopy served as a sounding board or resonator, helping to project the priest's voice to the congregation.
baldachin An ornamented canopy, supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall, usually over an altar, or throne.
baluster A miniature column or other form of upright which, in a series, supports a railing or handrail.
An ornamental structure in the shape of a canopy, supported by four columns, built over a church altar, and usually decorated with statues and other ornaments.
Baluster
Pillar with the centre large than the ends.
TESTER A cover or canopy suspended over a tomb or a pulpit. The tester may have a purely ornamental purpose or - where positioned over a pulpit - may be used as a sounding board to magnify and direct the preacher's voice.
Baldachin
An ornamented canopy over an altar, tomb, or throne.
Baptistery
A part of a church or a separate building, often octagonal or round, in which baptisms take place.
Built-in settles with an arched canopy
Exotic Moorish-type arches with hanging lamps and Oriental rugs
For examples of Queen Anne interiors, see the following:
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Gable end - The gable shaped canopy over a door or window or a wall topped with a gable.
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Hard landscaping - Elements include paths, driveways, garden walls and patios.
a stylised ornament at the top of a pinnacle, gable, canopy etc
Flemish Bond
a type of brickwork in which alternate headers and stretchers in each course appear on the wall face.
CANTILEVER - A horizontal projection from a building, such as a step, balcony, beam or canopy, that is without external bracing and appears to be self-supporting.
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Pulpit
A raised stand from which the preacher addresses the congregation. Usually reached by steps or stairs, often covered by a carved canopy.
Reredos
A decorative screen behind the altar, usually highly carved.
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