Effigy: A sculptured representation of a figure such as in the recumbent effigies of dead kings at the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis.
CadaverIn a monument, an effigy depicted a naked corpse; also called a gisant.CamberSlight rise or upward curve in place of a horizontal line or plane.CamesLead strips joining pieces of window glass.
When he had seen the effigy radiant with glowing reddish gold and blazing gems, he was blinded by a cloud of greed. So he said, "Oh, if only that image would slip from the shoulders of the bearers and fall to the ground! ...
Indent - A shape chiselled out in a stone slab to receive a brass effigy.
Ingo or ingoing - The return face of a wall to provide a recess, usually for a door or window.
A representation of a person, especially in the form of sculpture, and usually associated with a recumbent effigy of a person dying or in death.
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[10] A groin-vaulted crypt beneath the main barrel-vaulted hall was intended as a pantheon of generals exhibited here in effigy. In addition, it functioned as a herġon, since the bones of Frederick the Great were to be placed in the building.[11] ...
 See also: Architecture, Gothic architecture, Church, Gothic arch, House
  
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