Segmental pediment: a round pediment
Some Classical pediments are round or swan's neck ...
Horizontal stone banding between floors
Segmental pediments
Ornately-carved stone window trim varying in design at each story
Smaller square windows on top floor
Quoins (large stone blocks at the corners) ...
as the front of the roof which covered the main building; the Romans, however, adopted it as a decorative termination to a doorway, niche or window, and occasionally, in a row of windows or niches, alternated the triangular with a segmental pediment.
Where the top section of the gable has a low curved part of a circular top. This is known as a segmental pediment. There are various uses in combinations of pediments on memorials. ie, a broken and open pediment can be used together.
representation of a building, moulding etc., revealed by cutting across it.Sedilia (singular: sedile)Seats for the priests (usually three) in the wall on the south side of the chancel of a church or chapel.Segmental pediment ...
 See also: Segmental, Pediment, House, Architecture, Ornament
  
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