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canted: sloping at the edges or set at a slight angle.
cantilever: a projecting beam supported by a weight on the other end.
cartouche: a heraldic panel, generally with curved sides.

 


Canted - Angled or cut-off corner, forming polygonal plan (e.g. canted bay-window).
Capital - The topmost member, usually decorated, of a column or pilaster and commonly in the Classical orders. It may support an entablature.

The canted facade of The Church Of Anime Ss. Del Purgatorio, Ragusa, the extremities of the facade are angled (canted) back from the centre
The facade of County Hall, Aylesbury with canted recesses ...

The Canted 800-foot glass wall exterior slopes at 14-degree angle
The clerestory lens is 33 feet at highest point, with overall length of 904 feet
Arches soar 292 feet above playing field
Each boxed arch is 17 feet wide and 35 feet deep ...

Sometimes the ceilings were horizontal, sometimes canted on two sides, and sometimes they take the form of a barrel-vault. Ribs are sometimes planted on the boarding to divide up the surface, and their intersections are enriched with bosses.

Canted: with a straight front and angled sides. Bow window: curved. Oriel: rests on corbels or brackets and starts above ground level; also the bay window at the upper or dais end of a medieval great hall.Bead-and-reel ...

Window of one or more storeys projecting from the face of a building. Canted with a straight front and angled sides. Bow window curved.

Chamfer(ed)
Also called canted
Architecture
The edge of a corner of wood, stone, etc., that is beveled or angled off, usually at a 45 degree angle ...

(Illustration from A.J. Downing, The Architecture of Country Houses, 1850, showing a canted bay window in the Gothic style with crenellations)
BELLCOTE A frame of stone or wood to hold bells, often located at the church's west end.

Bay Window
- a window which internally is recessed, and which consequently projects on the outside of the building. A Canted Bay Window has a straight front and angled sides. A Bow Window is curved.

See also: Architecture, Tower, Hall, House, Ornament

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