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- one row headers to five of stretchers. See brick/brickwork.
Scottish designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh became known for his Art Nouveau buildings and furnishings. Explore the life and works of Charles Rennie Mackintosh on the Mackintosh Pages by Armin Grewe.
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Scottish Rite Temple in Mobile, Alabama, built 1921.
The entrance to the Egyptian Avenue in Highgate Cemetery in London, England.
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Scottish Dormer
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This is a rare example of the Renaissance Revival style being applied to a residence.
The Scottish term for a hipped roof, i.e. with sloping rather than gabled ends. A piended platform roof is flat in the centre.PierLarge masonry or brick support, often for an arch.
[from Scottish Gaelic druim]
Drum a small party sent with a drum to parley with the enemy, 1745; a noisy assembly of society in a private house.
Four Scottish architect-designers who greatly influenced English interiors and furniture design during the middle and latter half of the 18th century.
Ross, S., Scottish Castles, Moffat, 1990.
Sorrel, A., British Castles, London, 1973.
Tabarelli, G.M., Ideal and Fortified Cities of the Renaissance, Arts, Arms and Armour, An International Anthology Volume 1, 1979 - 80, Switzerland, 1979.
distinctive Scottish form of the tower house in which a wing was added at right angles to the main tower block
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projecting weather moulding above a door or window to deflect rainwater ...
church (église in French; iglesia in Spanish; igreja in Portugese; chiesa in Italian; kostel in Czech; kirche in German; kirk in Scottish; kerk in Dutch) A building used for Christian worship.
Barmkin - the small walled yard attached to a pele tower (generally Scottish).
Barracks - building or group of buildings used to accommodate soldiers.
Barrel vault - cylindrical roof.
The word is a southern English form of the Scottish gavel, or of an O. Fr. word gable or jable, both ultimately derived from O. Norwegian gaff. In other Teutonic languages, similar words, such as Ger. Gabel and Dutch gaffel, mean "fork," cf. Lat.
A feature found much in Scottish architecture. Rather than a smooth triangular end to a roof gable, this creates a bold, stepped outline to the roof. Masonry or brick jumps up in a series of steps to the crow or top stone and then back down.
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small plain dormers or Scottish 5-sided dormers or large tringular dormer integrated into roof line
unadorned exterior with minimal trim
shingled or clapboard exterior ...
Federal houses resemble English "Adam" houses (named for the brothers Adam, Scottish architects and designers of interiors and furniture) from which they are stylistically descended.
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