Concentric - Having two sets of walls, one inside the other.
Coping - Covering stones.
Corbel - A projecting block of stone built into a wall during construction; step-wise construction, as in an arch, roof, etc.
Concentric castle in north Wales. Photos, map, and history from Castles of Wales.
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Concentric: having two sets of walls, one inside the other
Crenelation: a notched battlement made up of alternate crenels (openings) and merlons (square sawteeth)
Cross-wall: an internal dividing wall in a great tower ...
Concentric castle
castle with two or more rings of defences, one inside the other
Constable ...
Concentric castle: The castle introduced into Europe in the late 12th century which consisted of two or more complete rings of bastioned curtain wall within one another, each increasing in height towards the keep in the centre.
One of a series of concentric moldings on a Romanesque or a Golthic arch.
Bivalate: A hillfort defended by two concentric ditches. Blind arcade: A row of decorative arches applied to a wall; A 'dummy' arcade. Blind arch: An arch applied to a wall; A 'dummy' arch.
The most common markings are interlocking circles (some carved to create a six-petalled daisy flower effect), concentric circles and intersecting lines creating crosses and M's representing the Virgin Mary or double V's for ' ...
In a concentric castle, the area between two encircling walls.
Bailiff - person in charge of allotting work to peasants, organising repairs to castles, and doing other jobs on a medieval castle.
Balanced Flue - A double Flue made so that the draught is balanced by running its two halves (usually concentric) to a shared terminal.
Balanced Sash - A sash window with counterweights or springs ...
Initially, impregnable sites were chosen and were usually developed on the basis of strong buildings within a number of concentric rings of defences, which ideally, ...
The basic form of the sudu consists of a thatched roundhouse enclosed by concentric walls with two opposed entrances. Each entrance gives access to a semi-circular vestibule and the main central space of the building.
That was why in the Benedictine monasteries divine service --to which, according to the Rule, "nothing should be preferred"-- took place in accordance with two concentric circles. The first one was the one described each day by the singing of psalms.
In the Renaissance period columns were frequently banded, the bands being concentric with the column as in France, and occasionally richly carved as in Philibert De L'Orme's work at the Tuileries.
TrivallateOf a hill-fort: defended by three concentric banks and ditches.Trompe l’oeil(French, lit. trick the eye): Two-dimensional painting or decoration in which objects are represented three-dimensionally.
Archivolt - Onee of a series of concentric moldings on a Romanesque or a Gothic arch.
Area wall - The retaining wall surrounding a basement window which is below ground level.
Areaway - The excavated area between the Area wall and the basement window.
Archivolt - One of a series of concentric moldings on a Gothic arch.
Bay - A spatial division down the length of the building which divides it into sections from the floor to the roof. The pier marks the division between each bay.
A compound arch is an arch formed by concentric arches set within one another
Florentine arches have voussoirs longer at the crown than at the springing (the point where an arch rises from its supports) ...
Foil: Circular segments combined concentrically with other foils to form the tracery used in rose windows (fig.2, fig.4, B) The foil is usually used in groups such as trefoil or quatrefoil.
A hillfort defended by two concentric ditches.
black asphaltum
A bituminous substance applied to the outside of foundation walls beneath the ground level to waterproof these walls.
On these large platforms were built gradually smaller and smaller concentric platforms, although sometimes there were ground level temples more typical of the protoliterate period.
squinch : An arch, or a system of concentrically wider and gradually projecting arches, placed at the corners of a square base to act as the transition to a circular dome placed on the base. Contrast with pendentive.
coiled - curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals); "a coiled snake ready to strike"; "the rope lay coiled on the deck"
Translations
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a small single arch, or a series of concentric corbeled arches, set diagonally across the upper inside corner of a square building to facilitate the transition to a round dome or other circular superstructure.
Stained glass ...
The lowest division of the entablature in classical architecture . The main lintel or beam spanning from column to column. Concentric arch moldings which make an archivolt are also considered architraves.
Amboise - France
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This part, the auditorium, was filled with concentric seats, and might be capable of containing 20,000 spectators. A number exist in Greece, Sicily, and Asia Minor, and elsewhere.
 See also: Architecture, House, Vault, Tower, Roman
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