cornice - furnish with a cornice
architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" ...
Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding which crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal.
Cornice Bracket
These are brackets that hold the cornice in place. Modillions hold up the corona, and are sometimes used on cornices as well. The brackets are often paired.
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The cornice is the uppermost section of moldings along the top of a wall or just below a roof.
In Classical architecture, the cornice is the upper portion of the entablature, located above the architrave and the frieze.
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Egyptian cornice Egyptian Revival examples
Examples from Buffalo area FURNITURE:
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cornice - the top course of a wall when it serves as a crowning member. Along the slope of a gable or pediment, it is called a raking cornice. Maybe open or boxed in (closed).
cornice:
a horizontal molded projection that crowns or competes a building or wall
course:
acontinuous layer of building material, such as brick or tile, on a wall or roof of a building.
CORNICE A cornice is the finished edge of the roof where it meets the exterior wall, of varying sizes, sometime plain, but often decorative and marked by brackets, dentils, medalions or some other decorative feature.
Cornice -- The uppermost projecting part of an entablature, or a feature resembling it. Any projecting ornamental molding along the top of a wall, building, etc.
Cornice The uppermost section of moldings along the top of a wall; any molded projection of similar form.
Course A continuous row of building materials, such as shingle brick or stone.
Cresting The top line or surface of a structure.
Cornice
A Cornice is a decorative element made up of molded members usually placed at or near the top of an exterior or interior wall.
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Cornice
a crowning projection. In Classical architecture, the crowning or upper portion of the entablature.
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Cornice: A cornice is an ornamental molding, or composition of two or more moldings, located at the exterior wall-roof junction of a building, beneath the eaves, and/or beneath the sloping ends of a gable roof.
Cornice
A projecting molding located where the wall meets the ceiling or roof; may be supported by a series of brackets.
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Cornice - A continuous projection (usually composed of boards and/or moldings) that crowns a wall or other structure.
Cresting - A decorative fence-like ornament on the ridge of a roof.
Cornice: Ornamental moulded projection around the top of a building or around the wall of a room just below the ceiling.
Coving: Curved junction between wall and ceiling or (rarely) between ceiling and floor.
Cornice - Decorative projection along the top of a wall.
Counterguard - A long, near-triangular freestanding fortification within the moat.
Counterscarp - Outer slope of ditch.
CORNICE The top portion of the entablature: also, the crowning projection that finishes a wall, a window, or a door.
COTTAGE see ONTARIO COTTAGE
COURSE A continuous horizontal layer of brick, stone, etc., in a building.
Cornice - A decorative addition to the top and projecting from the face of an internal or external wall.
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Cornice A large moulding at the junction between an inside wall and a ceiling. Can also include a moulding at the top of an outside wall designed to project and throw raindrops clear of the wall.
cornice: the crowning projecting moulding along the top of an entablature.
corona: projecting upper member of a cornice.
cottage orné: a rustic cottage, often thatched, originating in the Picturesque movement of the 18th century.
cornice - a molding at the edge of a roof; a molding that covers the angle formed by ceiling and wall; the uppermost section of an entablature.
course - a horizontal row of stones or bricks in a wall.
CORNICE Any projecting ornamental molding that finishes or crowns the top of a building, wall, arch, etc.
COURSED A continuous layer of building material, such as brick or tile, on a wall or roof of a building.
CORNICE
Flat-topped ledge with moulded underside, projecting along the top of a building or feature, especially as the highest member of the classical entablature. Also the decorative moulding in the angle between wall and ceiling.
Cornice. Horizontal decorative element found where the wall meets the ceiling. Also the uppermost main division of an entablature.
Cornice
The projecting, crowning portion of a classical entablature. Also horizontal molding at the top of case pieces, such as bookcases and cabinets.
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cornice - the upper element of an entablature, molded and projecting, or any continuous molded and projecting cap to a wall or window or door opening. (p. 16 - along the roof top and around the gable ends making the gables into pediments, p.
cornice : The upper part of an entablature, extending beyond the frieze. The cornice is the uppermost section of moldings along the top of a wall or just below a roof.
Cornice
the projecting horizontal unit, usually molded, that surmounts an arch or wall; the topmost member of a Classical entablature.
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Cornice
In architecture, it is the projecting upper section of an entablature. Also a term for any crowning projecting moulding that runs around the top of a building or the wall of a room.
Cornice
The upper section of an entablature, a projecting shelf along the top of a wall often supported by brackets....
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Cornice
The horizontal feature that runs across the top of Classical columns and the roof line.
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Cornice - Any projecting ornamental moulding finishing along the top of a building or below the eaves. In an interior, the horizontal moulding between walls and ceiling.
Cornice
- In Classic Architecture the top, projecting, horizontal division of the entablature.
Also used to describe any projecting moulding at a wallhead, to denote an attic storey, and above windows, doors etc.
Cornice
The piece that runs along were the roof and wall meets.
Source:Victorian Architecture Vocabulary
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Cornice : A decorative horizontal outcropping serving to crown a wall or column.
Crockets : A distinctive Gothic motif formed of floral and leaf ornamentation. Primarily used on spire and pinnacle sculpture.
Cornice - a ledge-like crown projecting from a wall.
Cushion Capital - a simple rectangular or cube-like capital with the bottom corners tapered.
cornice A projecting molding that tops the elements to which it is attached; used especially for a roof or the crowning member of an entablature, located above the frieze.
cornice - (1) a decorative feature found under the eaves of a roof; (2) projecting ornamental molding hiding joint of a ceiling or roof, and wall
course - a continuous horizontal row of brick or stone in a wall ...
CORNICE
Moldings along the top of a wall.
COUPLED WINDOWS
Matched pair of windows separated by a mullion.
Cornice
The upper part of an entablature, extending beyond the frieze; also, ornamental molding projecting along the top of a building or wall.
Cornice
The top element of the entablature including the following elements: the cyma, the corona and the bed-moulding.
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CORNICEa moulded projection at the top of the wall (interior or exterior) of a building, or arch or window
CUPOLAsmall domed windowed structure on top of a roof or dome, sometimes lantern-shaped
DENTILStooth-like projections in a cornice ...
Cornice - In classical architecture, the top, projecting section of an entablature; also any projecting ornamental moulding along the top of a building, wall, arc, etc.
Molded cornices above and below the lower roof slope and decorative brackets beneath eaves, balconies and bay windows also help to identify the Second Empire style.
An eaves cornice overhangs the edge of a roof.Corps-de-logis(French): The main building(s) as distinct from the wings or pavilions.
Box Cornice - The edge of a roof built out to conceal the gutter, with a fascia in front and a soffit board underneath
Box Frame - A sash window cased frame ...
cornice the uppermost level of the entablature; also the uppermost level of molding on an internal or external wall.
Cornice - moulding at the junction between a wall and ceiling. Can also include a moulding at the top of an outside wall designed to project and throw raindrops clear of the wall.
Course - horizontal layer of bricks, blocks, slates etc.
cornice Overhanging edge of a sloping roof. crossing The point at which the transepts cross the nave of a church. cruciform Cross-shaped. crypt A vaulted chamber made to house graves and relics, generally located beneath the chancel.
orders also adapted by the Romans DORMER WINDOW: a window placed vertically in a sloping roof and with a roof of its own DRUM: a vertical wall supporting a dome; it may be circular, square, or polygonal EAVES: the underpart of an overhanging cornice ...
attic The part of the entablature above the cornice, serving to hide the roof. Back to Top
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baldachin A richly ornamented canopy structure supported by columns, suspended from a roof, or projected from a wall, as over an altar.
Overhanging eaves (cornice) with brackets, tall-arched windows.
5. Las Vegas, NM. Italianate commercial building with elaborate cornice and tall windows with arched pediments.
6. Bellefonte, PA.
DENTIL (from Lat. dens, a tooth), in architecture, a small tooth-shaped block used as a repeating ornament in the bedmould of a cornice.
The areas of style distinctions are the cornice lines, entry doorway & windows, and the column supported porches.The cornice of the main roof usually has a wide band.
Internally there are remains of wooden cornices carved in late Hellenistic style which joined the end columns of the arcades to the wall.
profile of the building in space spurred designers towards perfection in the articulation of parts, and these parts, known today as the orders of architecture, became intellectualized as stylobate, base, shaft, capital, architrave, frieze, cornice, ...
Masonry Originally construction by a mason in stone, but expanded to include brick, concrete block and fibro Mitre A diagonal joint formed by 2 pieces of timber meeting at an angle Modillions Blocks or brackets supporting a cornice or ...
This is suggested by an inscription along the cornice of the interior which reads in translation as: "When the living stones are assembled harmoniously, and the numbers coincide in an equal manner, ...
Roof cornices sport a wide trim. The front-gable found in one subtype became a common feature in Midwestern and Northeastern residential architecture well into the 20th century.
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