crown
Also found in: Medical, Legal, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson
0.01 sec.
Crown molding: A wide, molding with beveled edges that is used at the junction of an interior wall and ceiling. General term for any molding at the top or "crowning" an architectural element.
Crown Post
a vertical post standing centrally on a tie-beam to give direct support to a collar and collar purlin, and additionally to the collar purlin through two-way braces.
Dado ...
Crown molding A molding where the wall and ceiling meet; uppermost molding along furniture or cabinetry.
Cupola A small, dome-like structure, on top of the house.
Crownwork - Freestanding bastioned fortification in front of main defenses.
Cupola - Hemispherical armored roof.
Curtain Wall - A connecting wall hung between two towers surrounding the bailey.
Crown Top of an arch or roof.
Dado Rail A wooden moulding fixed to the wall or capping panelling and forming the top most part of a dado. Originally designed to avoid damage to the wall where people or furniture brushed against it.
Crown molding
The highest molding on a door, window, or cabinet.
D ...
Crown glass
- a method of producing glass in which a globe is transferred from the blowpipe to a pontil or punty, reheated and then spun until it opened up into a large flat plate - a table of crown glass.
Crown: To construct a work on the apex of the glacis or the top of a breach.
Crownwork: An outwork consisting of two long flanks and a front with a bastion and two demibastions, thus forming the shape of a crown.
The crowning glory of Palau Güell is the flat roof dotted with 20 different mosaic-covered sculptures that ornament the chimneys, ventilation covers, and stairwells. Functional rooftop sculptures later became a trademark of Gaudi's work.
The crowning feature of this design is the high pitched roof with two angles broken by dormers that bears his name.
Second Empire Residences ...
the 1849 Crown Street synagogue, Beth Israel, Philadelphia (extant?)
[edit] Third wave ...
ornament crowning spire, tower etc.
Pipe rolls
annual accounts of sheriffs rendered to the king ...
finial The crowning ornament of a pointed element, such as a spire.
flashing Strips of sheet metal bent to fit the angle between any two roof surfaces or between the roof and any projection, such as a chimney.
Lantern. Crowning element of a dome, usually circular or polygonal, admitting light to the interior of the building.
Lesene. * Pilaster-strip.
Lintel. Outer edge of an arch which may be purely decorative or structural in function.
the structure crowning a dome or tower, often used to admit light to the interior.
Lapis lazuli
a semiprecious blue stone; used to prepare the blue pigment known as ultramarine.
The top, head or crowning feature of a column or pilaster. Very often ornately decorated.
Cartouche.
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.
Crown - the top of an archway.
Cruck Beams - pairs of curved timbers, which run from ground level and meet at the ridge.
Cut Valley - a gutter at the junction of two roof where the slates or tiles are cut to meet on the valley line.
an opening by reasons other than that of a lintel ARCHITRAVE: the lintel extending from one column or pier to another BUTTRESS: a mass of masonry or brickwork projecting from or built against a wall to give more strength CAPITAL: the head or crowning ...
capitalA Capital is the crowning feature of a column (from the Latin caput=head). carpet beddingThe nineteenth century practice of using bedding plants to create carpet-like patterns.
spitze) given to the lofty roofs in stone or wood covered with lead or slate, which crown the towers of cathedrals, churches, &C.
Chemin de ronde - rare in England, very characteristic of French castles, this is the 'crown' at the top of a round tower, a machicolated gallery below or replacing the parapet.
The dome that he designed and built (1420-1436), and which crowns the cathedral today, is derived from Rome but differs in being octagonal, having an inner and an outer shell connected by ribs, being pointed and rising higher, ...
Spain, as a Christian State, was non-existent except as a small area of still unconquered territory near the Pyrenees, until the middle of the thirteenth century, when Ferdinand III, afterwards canonized, united the crowns of Castile and Leon, ...
There are four principal gateways and the walls were originally crowned with stepped merlons (crenellation). Internally the city is built to a regular plan recalling earlier Byzantine and Roman cities.
The wreath encircling the Lamb can be related to the Triumphal crowns offered to Emperors or Generals to commemorate victories.
Tall pyramidal or conical feature crowning a tower or turret. Broach: starting from a square base, then carried into an octagonal section by means of triangular faces.
They have a capital (the top, or crown) made of a circle topped by a square. The shaft (the tall part of the column) is plain and has 20 sides. There is no base in the Doric order.
There is usually a decorative crown above the door and flattened columns to either side of it. The door leads to an entryway with stairway and hall aligned along the center of the house. All rooms branch off of these.
The crowning features of their exteriors are those magnified versions of dormer windows, the lucarnes.
Befitting a king--in fact, the style is named for four King Georges of England--Georgian homes are refined and symmetrical with paired chimneys and a decorative crown over the front door.
It has paired chimneys, five windows in front, the crown over the front door and flattened columns on each side of the door. Notice the fancy crown over the door it has a small balcony on top of the columns.
Decorative crown or roof over the front door
Narrow sidelights flanking the front door
Double-hung sash windows arranged symmetrically vertically and horizontally around a centered doorway
Windows are never in adjacent pairs ...
Syrian arch - a type of semicircular arch that has very low supports, with the result being that the distance from the impost to the level of the crown of the arch is greater than the height of the impost from the ground.
A cornice forming the crowning top of a chimney.
Chimney Pot
A cylindrical pipe or brick made of terra cotta or metal; placed atop a chimney to extend it and thereby increase the draft.
acroterion - A classical ornament or crowning adorning a pediment usually at gable corners and crown, generally of monsters, sphinxes, griffins or gorgons, sometimes massive floral complexes.
gablet - a gable-shaped stone that crowns a buttress.
Galilee porch - a porch at the western end of a church or cathedral; a biblical reference to Christ leading his disciples after the resurrection into Galilee.
...
Capital - The head or crowning feature of a column.
Caprice - A caprice is a design element that is whimsical, light, and fanciful.
Caracol or caracole - A spiral staircase.
often features veranda and cupola which crowns main structure
details of style used in both rural and urban houses and commercial buildings well into 20th century
SECOND EMPIRE c. 1860s to 1880s ...
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.
The artistic advances of this period were initiated by Martel's grandson Charlemagne, who was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800.
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 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.
CUPOLA
Small polygonal or circular domed turret crowning a roof.
CURATIN WALL
A connecting wall between the towers of a castle. Also a non-load-bearing external wall applied to a C20 framed structure.
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.
keystone - a wedge-shaped stone in the crown of an arch or center of a lintel to bind the structure
lancet - a narrow pointed arched opening seen in Gothic Revival ...
The door is often crowned by a semi-elliptical window called a fanlight, transom, or delicate horizontal woodwork called an entablature. Similar fans or fanlights are often found in the gable end in the attic area of the building.
Keystone - the architectural piece at the crown of a vault or arch and marks its apex, locking the other pieces into position.
Lancet window - A Gothic pointed window.
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).
A small cyma is called a cymatium. When a cyma is used as the crown moulding of an entablature, it is called a cymatium.
Dentils ...
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.
During the Gothic era, the west façade at the entranceway was noted for its three sculptured portals, and crowning rose window flanked by two towers. Starting with Saint-Denis, this became a feature of Gothic cathedrals.
Ecclesia: Personification of church. Often appears with Synagoga (Personification of Judaism): both appear as female figures, Ecclesia crowned and holding a chalice and Synagogo with tablets of law and blindfolded ...
Caementa: irregular chunks of stone or terracotta used as a aggregate in Roman concrete; by mixing caementa of different weights, domes (such as the Pantheon) could be constructed with heavy bases and lighter crowns).
Spire - A slender elongated hip roof to (usually, a church) tower tapering to an acute point, either timber framed and clad, or stone. Types include: broach (octagonal. rising from a square base) needle (very thin) or crown (with legs or ...
The windows on a georgian house design have small panes of glass usually 9 or 12 panes per sash, paneled front door with decorative crown supported by pilasters, front door that's uncovered or covered by porch.
obelisk an upright, four-sided, tapered pillar that terminates in a pyramid; it may be inscribed or plain, and it is often placed prominently in the center of a pool, at the crown of a hill, or at the end of a terrace walk.
 See also: Architecture, House, Ornament, Church, Roman
|
