Medieval Architecture Glossary of Terms
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Medieval Architecture
Art in the Middle ages was inseparable from religion. It was infused with spiritual symbolism and meaning. The purpose of art was to awe and inspire the viewer with the grandeur of God.
MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE
INTRODUCTION
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Medieval Architecture Glossary
Click on the architectural terms for definitions, illustrations, and even audio pronunciations. By Jane Vadnal.
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Medieval architecture in Pakistan is best represented by the funerary and religious buildings of Multan and Uchch in the Punjab.
In medieval architecture Hagioscopes were often a low window in the chancel wall and were frequently protected by either a wooden shutter or iron bars.
In late medieval architecture, a type of construction in which the heavy timber framework is exposed, and the spaces between the studs filled with wattle-and-daub, plaster or brickwork.
Period of Medieval architecture prevalent in Western Europe from 12th to 16th century. Characterized by the pointed arch and large windows with ornate tracery. Can be subdivided into Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular.
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In Gothic or Medieval architecture, scalloping was used as decoration under a cornice or decorative freize. The design may come from the machicolations in turrets. The brackets used to support the openings for assalt gradually became more decorative.
Œillet - In medieval architecture, a small opening in fortification through which missiles could be discharged.
Ogive - The French name for a pointed arch, hence ogival, a term applied to French Gothic architecture, but no longer used.
CORBEL (Lat. corbellus, a diminutive of corvus, a raven, on account of the beak-like appearance; Ital. mensola, Fr. corbeau, cul-de-lampe, Ger. Kragstein), the name in medieval architecture for a piece of stone jutting out of a wall to carry any ...
A style found in English medieval architecture, developed from the later thirteenth century to the mid fourteenth century. Decorated Gothic lives up to its name: it delights in geometric ornament and variety, possessing a certain restlessness.
Peter's to distinguish it from the present church, was extremely influential in later medieval architecture. It is believed to have built on the site of the burial of St. Peter, the principal disciple of Christ and the first Bishop of Rome.
Although Gothic Revival buildings were modeled on medieval architecture, none were built using medieval construction.
Bell capitalA form of capital shaped like an upturned bell, common in early medieval architecture.Bellcast roof(Scots): A sloping roof swept out slightly over the eaves. In England often called a sprocketed roof.
horseshoe arch : a curved arch often used in Spanish medieval architecture. Its maximum width is greater than the distance between its two side supports.
PINNACLE A conical ornament surmounting a gable or buttress in medieval architecture.
PORTE-COCHÈRE A porch or portico designed to admit a carriage.
PORTICO A porch with columns and usually a pediment.
pier: An upright support, generally square, rectangular, or composite. In medieval architecture there are massive circular supports called drum piers. Compare with column, pilaster Types of pier: compound, drum See also: alternation of support ...
Blind arcading
An arcade backed by a solid wall. A very popular decorative motif in English medieval architecture.
Boss
Decorative sculpture at the intersection of two vault ribs.
The Stones of Venice, contains the celebrated chapter on "The Nature of Gothic," which for the first time equated the beauties of medieval architecture and decoration with the pleasure taken by the workman in producing them.
This Decorated period, with its lavish ornamentation, also produced 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, ...
Although the finest medieval architecture was ecclesiastical, great secular buildings were also constructed in the years 1000 to 1400.
In medieval architecture there are massive circular supports called drum piers. Pilaster: A true pilaster is a rectangular element of vertical masonry which projects only slightly from the wall and has both a capital and a base.
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