Lantern
Also called a lantern light
A tower or small turret with windows or openings for light and air, crowning a dome or cupola.
Lantern
Generally used in Italian and Renaissance designs, a lantern is a small structure placed atop a dome to allow the entry of light and air. Perhaps the most famous lantern is on the Duomo in Florence.
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Lantern crossChurchyard cross with lantern-shaped top.Lattice girderA girder with braced framework.LavatoriumIn an abbey or monastery, a washing place adjacent to the refectory or dining hall.
Lantern - A small circular or polygonal turret with windows all round, crowning a roof or dome.
Lantern cross - A churchyard cross with lantern-shaped top; usually with sculptured representation on the sides of the top.
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Any structure rising above the roof of a building and having openings in its sides by which the interior of the building is lighted.
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Lantern - open structure on a roof or in a tower or dome that admits light and air.
Parapet - a low wall or railing on a balcony or bridge.
lantern - A small, windowed structure on a roof for the purpose of admitting light
latticework - Interlaced, decorative strips of lath, iron or wood ...
Lantern
a raised structure on a dome, glazed to admit light or ventilation.
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Lantern - An upright structure on a roof or dome for letting in light and air or for decoration.
Latticework - An ornamental, lattice framework consisting of a criss-crossed pattern.
Lantern
The windowed upper stage of a tower or dome.
Lay
A lay person was anyone who was not a priest, monk, or otherwise in religious orders.
Lantern - Small structure with open or windowed sides on top of a roof or dome to let light or air into the enclosed space below.
Lattice - Laths or lines crossing to form a network.
Lias - Greyish rock which splits easily into slabs.
Lantern Light A roof light constructed like a lantern with fixed and/or opening glazing.
Lap The overlap of slates, tiles and other coverings.
Lath Any base for plasterwork; typically thin wooden strips or expanded metal.
lantern A windowed superstructure at the top of a roof or dome; a small cupola.
lintel A horizontal beam or stone bridging an opening, most often a door.
loggia A gallery that is open on one or more sides, often with an arcade.
Lantern
A cylindrical or polygonal structure that crowns a dome, its base usually open to allow light to enter the area below. Image courtesy of Gretchen Ranger ...
lantern: topmost section of a dome, with small vertical windows admitting light or air to the interior.
lierne vault: a ribbed vault incorporating liernes, i.e. decorative tertiary ribs not springing from the principal boss or springers.
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.
LANTERN
Circular or polygonal windowed turret crowning a roof of a dome. Also the windowed stage of a crossing tower lighting the church interior.
Lantern
the structure crowning a dome or tower, often used to admit light to the interior.
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Lantern Tower:
An extended tower or watch house illuminated in its uppermost windows.
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Lantern
Found on the top of buildings, lanterns are usually windowed, delicate structures designed to let light in to the roof and rooms below. They can be found on both Classical and Gothic buildings.
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Lantern
- a small glazed turret lighting a roof or dome, usually quite small, but can be large magnificent and technically brilliant as at Ely Cathedral.
Lantern
A small structure on top of a dome, tower, or roof, often open to admit light below.
Lintel
See post and lintel.
lantern slide, slide - a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector
viewgraph, overhead - a transparency for use with an overhead projector
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LANTERN: a circular or polygonal structure with windows all round, raised on a tower or roof to admit light. LAP DOVETAIL: an overlapping form of dovetail joint which is not finished flush.
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, and being crowned with a lantern.
there are but few on the crossing of nave and transept; the towers were built to receive them, as at Amiens, Reims and Beauvais, but for some reason not carried above the roof, possibly from some doubt as to the expediency of raising stone lanterns ...
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, ...
Above the crossing is a richly decorated lantern tower.
Externally, the various parts of the building cannot be seen together, except at a distance, from which the massive spires, ...
Isidoro at Leon both possess domes or lanterns over the crossing, remarkable in point of structural ingenuity and beauty of design both internally and externally.
Lantern - Tower with a window on top of a dome.
Latrine - A privy.
Lease - A contract letting a house, farm, for a term, period of time for which contract is made.
The minaret is a tall square tower capped by an octagonal lantern covered with a dome. A notable feature of the minaret is the use of a muqarnas cornice which is the first example of this decoration on the exterior of a building.
At night, the illuminated glass house turned into a lantern, drawing swarms of mosquitos and moths. Dr. Farnsworth hired Chicago architect William E. Dunlap to design bronze-framed screens.
CUPOLA A small domed lantern or turret on a roof.
CUSP The point formed by the intersection of two foils in Gothic tracery.
DADO See wainscot.
An opening in roof (often with lantern over) to allow smoke to escape from central hearth.
CUPOLAsmall domed windowed structure on top of a roof or dome, sometimes lantern-shaped
DENTILStooth-like projections in a cornice ...
If one can reach the cupola by climbing a stairway inside the building, one can refer to this type of accessible cupola as a belvedere or as a widow's walk. Some cupolas, called lanterns, have small windows which illuminate the areas below.
such poetic creations as the lovely Angel Choir (begun 1256) of Lincoln Cathedral, and was responsible as well for that unique masterpiece of medieval architecture, the astounding octagon (begun 1322) of Ely Cathedral, with its wooden lantern and ...
Louvers originated in the Middle Ages as lantern-like constructions that were fitted on top of roof holes in large kitchens to serve as ventilation while keeping out rain and snow.
 See also: Architecture, Tower, Church, House, Vault
  
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