Roll moulding
- a plain semicircular moulding replacing the arris on the margins around doors or windows.
A narrow flat band running down a medieval shaft or along a roll moulding. It separates larger curved mouldings in classical cornices, fluting or bases.FinialTopmost ornamental feature, e.g. above a spire, gable or cupola.
Fillet - A narrow, flat, raised band running down a shaft between the flutes in a column or along an arch or a roll moulding; also the uppermost member of a cornice, sometimes called a listel.
Rectangular plinth with overhanging cavetto moulding (a hollow moulding with its profile being a quadrant of a circle, mainly used in cornices); a podium with cavetto and roll mouldings at the base and battered sides.
ROLL MOULDING: a moulding of simple convex cross-section. ROMAN ORDER: see COMPOSITE ORDER. ROMANESQUE: the overriding, composite architectural style, prevailing from the early seventh century to c.
 See also: Moulding, Roll, Ornament, Architecture, Cornice
  
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