Molding
This is a general term for all the decorative outlines, contours, cavities, and projections on cornices, bases, door and window jambs and continuous designs around a building. Moldings can be wood, stone, plaster, stucco, or plastic.
Rope molding
Also called cable molding, torsade (pron. tor SADE)
1. A twisted or spiral molding
2. Any ornamentalornamental twist ...
Moldings
Molding is used to create shadow and definition on a surface, to separate elements, to cover unsightly seams, and to bring decorative detail into a room.
"The Melville, with its brick front, delicate dentil molding, white keystones, and arched Georgian entrance, looks a little too fancy for its rural location..." - Witold Rybczynski, Last Harvest (2007), p. 244
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Molding
In architecture, a continuous, narrow surface (projecting or recesses, plain or ornamented) designed to break up a surface, to accent, or to decorate.
molding (moulding) - A decorative band used to obscure the joints where two surfaces meet.
mullion - The central, vertical member of a door or bar between coupled windows or casement windows ...
MOLDING A decorative raised surface along the edge of an architectural feature such as a window, column, door or wall.
MORTAR A mixture of sand, water, lime and cement used to lay bricks, stone, tile or concrete block.
molding
Shaped decorative outlines on projecting cornices and members in wood and stone.
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Moldings: Long narrow, often decorated bands found on other architectural features such as cornices or bases.
Molding
a continuous contoured surface, either recessed or projecting, used for decorative effect on an architectural surface.
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Base Molding - The decorative wooden strip along the top edge of the baseboard.
Base Shoe - The wooden strip (usually quarter round) along the bottom face of the baseboard at the floor level.
drip molding - (eared) a projecting molding over doors, window, and archways to direct rain away from the opening. The "eared"extensions at the head casing trim approximate stone details found in Greek and Roman Classical architecture. (p.
Crown molding
The highest molding on a door, window, or cabinet.
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Dentil molding - Greek classical feature of a row of small rectangular shapes placed closely together beneath the cornice. Teeth-like in appearance.
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bandelet, bandelette, bandlet, square and rabbet, annulet - molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column
architrave - the molding around a door or window ...
Moldings : Carved contours given to Piers and columns to exploit optical effects of light.
Ogee arches : An arch formed by the meeting of two double curves forming a long S shape; a definitive design of the Gothic era.
Molding: An ornamental exterior trim around the perimeter of a frame.
Mortise: A slot or rectangular cavity cut into a piece of wood to receive another part.
molding A decorative band of varied contour, used to trim structural members, wall planes, and openings.
mullion A vertical primary framing member that separates paired or multiple windows within a single opening.
Molding
Is a strip of material used to cover transitions between surfaces or for decoration. It is traditionally made from solid milled wood or plaster but may be made from plastic or reformed wood.
molding (molding) - decorative finishing strip.
Mullion - vertical bar of wood, metal or stone which divides a window into two or more parts.
A molding going around a house with rectangle holes in it.
Source:Victorian Architecture Vocabulary
Column
A round or square shaped post usually holding up the roof.
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Hood molding; needs definition
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impost block or abacus: The slab at the top of a capital between the capital and the architectural member above. See also column, pier. Other parts of a column or pier: capital, shaft, column base.
DENTIL
Molding composed of equally spaced rectangular blocks; from the French for tooth.
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Relief
Moldings and ornamentation projecting from the surface of a wall.
Spandrel
The triangular area between the sides of two adjacent arches.
Stop A molding used to hold, position or separate window parts
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Casing: Molding or trim available in many widths, thicknesses and profiles applied to the frame around a window or door to cover the space between the window frame and wall.
embattled molding - having indentions like those of a battlement.
fan tracery vaulting - a system of ceiling vaulting with all ribs having the same curve, resembling the folds of a fan. ...
A projecting molding located where the wall meets the ceiling or roof; may be supported by a series of brackets.
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cornice - a molding at the edge of a roof; a molding that covers the angle formed by ceiling and wall; the uppermost section of an entablature.
course - a horizontal row of stones or bricks in a wall.
Carved or curved molding used in architecture and interior design as decorative motiff, often consisting of flutes which are inverted and curved. Pop...
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Archivolt: the molding fram an arch. In Romanesque and Gothic architecture, each one of a series of arches framing the tympanum of a portal.
Lintel: a horizontal beam spanning an openings, as over a window or door, or between two posts.
Ogee
An edge or molding that has the profile of an S-shaped curve. An ogee arch is formed by the intersection of two such S-shaped curves.
Archivolts: Bands or mouldings (moldings, Am.) surrrounding an arched opening. Arrow Loop: A narrow vertical slit cut into a wall through which arrows could be fired from inside. Ashlar: Squared blocks of smooth stone neatly trimmed to shape.
architrave a term generally used for the molding around a door or window, and specifically used for the lowest level of the entablature, directly above the capital of a column.
open-heart molding (Brit. open-heart moulding). Romanesque decorative molding consisting of overlapping shapes resembling upside-down hearts or spades, laid over a roll-molding.
Slight eave overhang, boxed with modillions, dentils, or other classical moldings
round fanlight or elliptical fanlight with sidelights at doors
six- or eight- panel door
Pilasters to sides of doors (may have pediment) ...
Embellished cornices, usually with dentil moldings and egg-and-dart molding underneath
Small one-story portico or entry porch with columns or entryway with classical detailing and decorative motifs such as festoons, urns, swags and garlands ...
There are parts to a Tuscan base: the Plinth Block, the Torus, (also known as the bull nose or base molding), and the Cincture. Directly above the stylobate, or the platform on which the architectural column bases sit, is the Plinth.
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.
Cornice: A cornice is an ornamental molding, or composition of two or more moldings, located at the exterior wall-roof junction of a building, beneath the eaves, and/or beneath the sloping ends of a gable roof.
Archivolt - One of a series of concentric moldings on a Gothic arch.
Bay - A spatial division down the length of the building which divides it into sections from the floor to the roof. The pier marks the division between each bay.
IMPOST - the part of the arch's wall (usually molding) on which the arch rests.
ABUTMENT - the part of the arch's wall which balances the force of gravity the arch makes (thrust) .
CENTER - the center point of the arch.
Trim - The finish materials to a building, such as moldings applied around openings (window trim, door trim) or at the floor and ceiling of rooms (baseboard, cornice, picture molding).
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.
Archivolts - bands or moldings around an arches opening.
Ashlar - a type of hewn stone, generally rectangular and large in size.
dentils:
a series of small rectangular blocks forming a molding or projecting beneath a cornice
dormer:
a window set vertically in a small gable projecting from a slope in the roof ...
astragal A narrow convex molding often having the form of beading. Simple T-shaped astragals are common on French doors.
Diagonal rib - The moldings which mark the diagonals in a rib vault.
cornice - (1) a decorative feature found under the eaves of a roof; (2) projecting ornamental molding hiding joint of a ceiling or roof, and wall
course - a continuous horizontal row of brick or stone in a wall ...
One of a series of concentric moldings on a Romanesque or a Golthic arch.
rounded-headed windows with hood moldings
arched porches
balustraded balconies ...
Moulding - A relatively narrow strip of wood, usually shaped to a curved profile throughout its length; used to accent and emphasize the ornamentation of a structure and to conceal surface or angle joints. Sometimes spelled molding.
Elaborately paneled doors are topped by fanlights or pediments, and heavy moldings called entablatures run under the roofs.
 See also: Architecture, House, Ornament, Classical, Cornice
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