Doorway
The entrance to a building, or an apartment in a building. Since the middle ages, the doorway is a striking and important feature of the building showing clearly the style. The size of the doorway and the doo rsurround are important.
Doorways
Provides main emphasis on facade (perhaps the only exterior ornamentation):
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Doorway to the Frey House II
Entrance to the Frey House II by architect Albert Frey
The doorway to the Frey House II is painted gold to match the desert flowers that bloom on the sandstone hillside.
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In Romanesque and Gothic Cathedrals there is often a depiction of Christ in Majesty above the central door. There are many famous examples in France, including those at Chartres and Angers.
doorway, room access, door, threshold - the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close; "he stuck his head in the doorway" ...
Any doorway or entrance but especially one that is large and imposing. See also jamb, lintel, trumeau
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the doorway of a church and the architectural composition surrounding it.
Portico
(a) a colonnade; (b) a porch with a roof supported by columns, usually at the entrance to a building.
Door/doorway
- a doorway includes opening door and surrounds, the doorcase, which can take a variety of forms, having consistently evolved with the architectural styles of the time.
small doorway useful for entering or leaving a castle after the main gates had been closed
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Central doorway of the south transept of Chartres Cathedral, c. 1220-1230. The tympanum and lintels illustrate the Last Judgment. Christ is presented on the trumeau.
Last Judgement from the South Transept portals of Chartres Cathedral.
centred doorway with transom
small plain dormers or Scottish 5-sided dormers or large tringular dormer integrated into roof line
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portal: Any doorway or entrance but especially one that is large and imposing. See also lintel, jamb, trumeau ...
Portal
A doorway or entrance, especially one that is large and imposing.
portal: a doorway.
porte-cochere: a portico through which wheeled traffic can pass.
portico: aa projecting porch consisting of columns and (nearly always) a pediment, often with a flight of steps.
Portal - A doorway, entrance or gate. One that is large and imposing.
Quatrefoil - An architectural ornament having four lobes or foils.
Rayonnant - A thirteenth-century slender radiant style from the court of Louis IX.
J Jamb: A vertical element of a doorway or window frame; Side posts of arch, door, or window. Jamb figures: Statues carved on the jambs of a doorway or window.
Although common on doors and jambs of doorways, they are most likely to be found around fireplaces.
chevron A zigzag pattern characteristic of Romanesque decoration that is often carved around pillars, arches and doorways. choir Also spelled quire. The eastern arm (front) of a church, where services were historically sung.
JAMB: the vertical face of an archway, doorway, or window KEYSTONE: the central stone of a true arch of rib vault LANTERN: a small circular or polygonal turret with windows all round, ...
architrave The lowest part of an entablature resting on the capital of a column; also, the holdings around a doorway. ashlar Stones hewn and squared for use in building, as distinguished from rough stones.
to the Gr. Obpa, Lat. fores or valvae; the English word, with other forms common in allied languages, comes from the same Indo-European stem as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fores), in architecture, the slab, flap or leaf forming the enclosure of a doorway, ...
The most remarkable feature of the earthen rendering is the application of striking white-painted designs around the doorways, windows and niches or the courtyard.
Porch - A building forming an enclosure or protection for doorway, a portico or colonnade, a veranda.
Portal - A gate or doorway, esp. great or magnificent one, any entrance, the arch over a gate.
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.
Independent curtain walls: Each wallwalk was only accessible by the doorways in each flanking tower which punctuated the length of the curtain wall, ...
Massive front entrances, usually with elaborate carvings around the doorway
Exuberance of detail and highly decorated with swags, medallions, cartouches, flowers, and shields
Symmetrical and balanced facades
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Tradition has it that if you fire a shotgun through the front doorway of this long, narrow home, the bullet will exit directly through the back door. The style is characterized by a single story with a gabled roof.
Gothic Revival buildings often had vaulted ceilings, battlements, lancet-arched windows and doorways, ...
Stone replaced mud brick in construction, and two false doorways were added to the eastern face for the use of the pharaoh's ba, meaning soul.
Gibbs surround - The surround of a doorway or window consisting of alternating large and small blocks of stone, quoin-wise, or of intermittent large blocks; ...
Architrave A moulding around a doorway or window opening. It usually covers the joints between the frame and the wall finish, thus hiding any shrinkage gaps which may occur.
Ashlar Squared and faced stone used as high quality finish.
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A defining characteristic is the detailed doorway with a low elliptical or pointed arch called a four-centered arch (also known as the Tudor arch).
Jamb - a vertical element of a doorway or window frame.
Key Stone - the voussoir at the top of an arch. It is important structurally since it marks the apex of the vault.
Khirbet - Arabic word meaning ancient ruin.
Arch - A curved structure used as a support over an open space, as in a doorway. A Semicircular opening in a wall, or a freestanding structure dependent for its structural stability on the horizontal load threatening to push it apart.
Hood Mold -- A projecting molding above an arch, doorway or window.
Ionic Order -- A classical order characterized by a capital with spiral scrolls, called volutes.
Lattice -- An openwork grill of interlacing wood strips used as screening.
The balcony is balustrade that stretches across the front of the house followed by an arcade porch that hangs over the doorway. The doorway consists of paired, asymmetrical doors lined with molding.
Architrave: Joinery moulding around window or doorway.
Asbestos: Fibrous mineral used in the past for insulation. Can be a health hazard specialist advice should be sought if asbestos (especially blue asbestos) is found.
REVEAL The inside surface of a doorway or window opening, usually the thickness of a wall.
ROTUNDA An internal space, perhaps domed, round, or oval in plan; often part of the circulation pattern in a building.
Column figureCarved figure attached to a medieval column or shaft, usually flanking a doorway. Compare trumeau figure.
The straight vertical side of a doorway, arch or window.
Joists
Horizontal timbers laid parallel to support floor and ceiling loads, which are themselves supported by larger members or bearing walls.
porch - a projecting, enclosed doorway, usually a side entrance located at the north and south transepts of a cathedral.
quatrafoil - tracery constructed from four foils.
See cinquefoil.
PORTAL an entrance, doorway, or gateway.
PULPIT A raised and enclosed platform in a church from which a preacher delivers a sermon.
PURLIN Horizontal longitudinal timber in a roof structure.
Tympanum : The vertical space between the arch and the lintel of a doorway. This location was often considered the premier site on a structure for sculpture, and so contained significant scenes such as the Last Judgment or Christ enthroned.
Vault of the internal hood of a doorway or window to which a splay has been given on the reveal, sometimes the vaulting surface is terminated by a sm...
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the sides of an archway, doorway, window, or other opening.
Jetty
the projection of an upper storey of a building beyond the plane of a lower storey.
JAMB - Side part of a doorway or window.
JOIST - Horizontal structural timber used in flat roof, ceiling and floor construction. Occasionally also metal.
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jamb - the straight vertical side of a doorway or window
joist - horizontal structural members to which the boards of a floor or the lath for a ceiling are nailed ...
An ornament found in Carved Norman doorways, shaped like a grotesque bird or beast with beaks. Usually biting into a roll-moulding.
Belfry.
Door-frame - Two upright members (lambs) and a head (lintel) over the doorway on which to hangs the door.
Door furniture - Any functional or decorative fitting for a door, including the hinges, handle, lock and fingerplate.
Is a structure attached to a building, forming a covered entrance to a vestibule or doorway.
Arch A curved structure used as a support over an open space, as in a doorway.
Asbestos Shingles A shingling material made up of a non-conducting, fireproof mineral used in roofing and siding.
Tympanum - Space between lintel and arch over doorway.
Vault - Stone roofing.
Vitrified - Material reduced to glass by extreme heat.
portico A small porch composed of a roof supported by columns, often found in front of a doorway.
p.s.i. Pounds per square inch, a term generally used when describing water pressure when cleaning a building.
Space between the lintel and arch of a doorway or opening.
Vault
Stone ceiling formed like arches.
Broad triangular or curved space above a portico, doorway, window or cabinet. Can have segmental, scroll, and broken forms.
Pembroke table
A drop-leaf table.
PEDIMENT
A triangular architectural feature or decoration over a doorway or window.
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Reveal: the side of an opening or recess which is at right angles to the face of the work; especially the vertical side of a doorway, window, or arch
Spina: the divider down the middle of a circus, finished with metae at either end ...
sidelights - a vertical line of small glass panes flanking a doorway. Used throughout American architecture beginning with the Greek Revival.
tympanum The panel, usually semicircular, located between the underside of an arch and the top of a doorway within the arch; also the triangular space enclosed by a pediment.
trilithon (6) -- a construction with two upright posts and a horizontal one set on top of them; often the lintel slab set over the doorway of a tholos tomb or over those of Early and Middle Minoan round tombs (Warren, 148) ...
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