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Shaft
In a column or colonette, the shaft is the vertical pole that exists between the base and the capital. Shafts can be plain, fluted or ornate. See also Ionic, Doric, Composite, Corinthian.
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Shaft-ring
A ring around a circular pier or a shaft attached to a pier, typical of the 12th and 13th centuries. Also called an annulet.Shaped gable ...
shaft
The structural member which serves as the main support of a column or pier. The shaft is between the capital and the base. See also abacus or impost block, base, capital, column, pier
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Shaft-ring or annulet or corbel-ring - A motif of the 12th and 13th Century consisting of a ring round a shaft ...
Shaft A long, slender part of a pillar that adds support to an overhanging structure.
Sheathing A covering over the structural frame of a building, onto which the cladding is attached.
Shaft ring
A characteristically Early English-style moulded band around a shaft. Used to cover the joints between the sections of a detached shaft, but also as a decorative feature.
Shaft - Narrow column.
Shell-keep - Circular or oval wall surrounding inner portion of castle; usually stores and accommodations inside the hollow walls.
Sill - Lower horizontal face of an opening.
shaft grave (13) -- a communal grave at the foot of a shaft dug from the surface (Biers, 337) Sample Image (Lesson 19)
shaft-niche grave (13)
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shaft: a column, excluding its base or capital.
socle: a base or pedestal.
soffit: the surface beneath an arch, cornice, window, door head or other feature.
SHAFT The main vertical part of a column between the base and the capital.
SILL The horizontal ledge at the bottom of a window frame.
Shaft
the vertical, cylindrical part of a column that supports the entablature.
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Shaft
In architecture, the shaft is the part of a column between the capital and the base. It may be monolithic, or constructed out of several cylindrical elements called drums.
Ionic shaft: Slender fluted shaft (24 flutes)
Ionic base: Unlike the Greek Doric order column, Ionic columns normally stand on a base which separates the shaft of the column from the stylobate or platform.
Shaft sets on a simple base
Shaft is usually plain, not fluted (grooved)
Shaft is slender, with proportions similar to a Greek Ionic column
Smooth, round capitals (tops)
No carvings or other ornaments
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Shafted Chimneys
- chimneys in which the flue continued beyond the stack as a shaft usually square, often set diagonally, circular or octagonal and sometimes decoratively treated, eg with a twist. They are a particular feature of tudor architecture.
shaft The vertical segment of a column or pilaster between the base and the capital.
shed dormer A dormer window covered by a single roof slope without a gable.
shaft: Needs definition See also column, pier, capital, column base, abacus ...
The shaft of the Corinthian order has 24 flutes. The column is commonly ten diameters high.
Nookshaft
Offset
ledge in a wall followed by reduced thickness of the wall ...
Half-shaft - Roll-moulding on either side of opening.
Half-timber - The common form of medieval construction in which walls were made of a wood frame structure filled with wattle and daub.
Light shaft: An insulated shaft built to direct the light from a roof window or skylight through the attic to the room below.
Ionic shafts were taller than Doric ones. This makes the columns look slender. They also had flutes, which are lines carved into them from top to bottom.
Small moulded shaft, square or circular, in stone or wood, sometimes metal, supporting the coping of a parapet or the handrail of a staircase....
Balustrade
A series of balusters supporting a handrail or coping....
Air Shaft - A light well.
Air Space - A cavity.
Air Supported Structure - A type of air house with a single membrane carried by low pressure air.
The term "baluster shaft" is given to the shaft dividing a window in Saxon architecture. In the south transept of the abbey at St Albans, England, are some of these shafts, supposed to have been taken from the old Saxon church.
(Literally a ring) Shaft - ring. See shaft.
Apron.
A raised panel beneath a window or at the base of a wall monument or tablet. Sometimes shaped and decorated.
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Upper shaft of minaret
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The alternation may be quite obvious, between one pier (strong support) and one column (weak support), or it may exist only in slight differences, such as in the treatment of the shafting on each pier. Ambulatory: A semicircular or polygonal aisle.
bay A section of the nave, usually marked by vertical shafts or supporting columns at its four corners and arches on each side. belfry The upper story of a tower where bells are hung, or a purpose-built structure for the hanging of bells.
column a cylindrical, upright structural support in architecture, consisting of a base, shaft, and capital; an engaged column is one half-embedded in the wall behind it.
a wall or pier EYE: the center of a volute FACADE: the front of face or a building, emphasized architecturally FINIAL: a formal ornament at the top of a canopy, gable, or pinnacle FLUTING: shallow, concave grooves running vertically on the shaft of a ...
system, particularly in the lofty, vaulted triforium or gallery, so great in size that there is no rhythm in the relationship of arcade, triforium and clerestory, together with the columnar scheme of Sens and Noyon (the imposing of the vault shafts ...
Concern for the profile of the building in space spurred designers towards perfection in the articulation of parts, and these parts, known today as the orders of architecture, became intellectualized as stylobate, base, shaft, capital, architrave, ...
Romanesque A style developed in western and southern Europe after 1000 characterized by heavy masonry and the use of the round arch, barrel and groin vaults, narrow openings, and the vaulting rib, the vaulting shaft, ...
It all starts with some wood shafts, which latter was replaced by stone. On the top of the shaft, were circular pads with a square block of wood over it. The vertical columns were used to support the beams called architraves.
When architecturally correct, the base's height is exactly one-third the diameter of the shaft. There are parts to a Tuscan base: the Plinth Block, the Torus, (also known as the bull nose or base molding), and the Cincture.
Doric (earliest and simplest) Doric columns usually have no base; the shaft is thick and broadly fluted, the capital is plain.
Ionic (second) Ionic columns are usually slender, with fluted shafts, and prominent volutes on the capital.
Parts of a column are (bottom to top): base, shaft and capital. Columns are important design elements in Classical Revival and Neoclassical house styles. The most traditional columns follow the "Greek" and "Roman" orders (e.g.
A column typically has three parts: the base (the bottom), the shaft (the middle), and the capital (the top). The shaft of a column can be fluted or plain, as you'll see in the various column styles outlined here.
Banded column - Column with shaft interrupted by rectangular blocks. Band (of a shaft) -moulding(s) encircling Early English, Gothic, Pier shaft.
Balustrade - A railing, usually along the edge of a balcony or verandah.
Each was a style for treating a column with its base, shaft and capital. The Doric Order has a fluted shaft and plain capital. The Ionic Order has slimmer columns and a voluted capital.
column : A vertical support; in an order it consists of a shaft and capital, often resting on a base. A vertical weight-carrying architectural member, cuircular in cross section and consisting of a base (sometimes omitted) a shaft, and a capital.
Bay - a vertical division, usually marked by vertical shafts or supporting columns.
Bell Tower - a tower where the church bells were installed. This could be separate from the church, or, more usually, attached. Sometimes called a campanile.
an Order in architecture comprising a column, fluted shaft and plain capital but with no base.
Dragon-beam
a ceiling beam on the diagonal into which are housed the ends of the joists that form jetties on two adjacent fronts of a building.
Three-Part Vertical Block buildings are analogous to the divisions of classical columns with their bases, shafts, and capitals. These facades were fully developed by the 1890s during the Richardsonian style.
Fillet : Delicate adornment strips applied to shafts and archways along the moldings.
Finial : An ornamental capping piece placed atop spires.
Fluting : Carved vertical groove work found on Piers, Columns and Pillars.
Tall, square stone monumental shaft with pyramidal top used in ancient Egypt. The form, on a small scale in alabaster, is used as a decorative ornament in Directoire, Empire, and contemporary interiors.
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fluting Shallow, concave grooves running vertically on the shaft of a column, pilaster or other surface.
flying buttress An arch or half-arch that transfers the thrust of a vault or roof from an upper part of a wall to a lower support.
COLUMN A vertical supporting post, usually composed of a base, a shaft, and a capital.
COPING A protective, sloping capping to a wall.
CORBEL A carved or moulded supporting stone that projects from the wait surface.
It usually has a base, shaft, and capital but is decorative rather than structural. Portico A structure usually attached to a building, such as a porch, consisting of a roof supported by piers or columns.
Column: Slender vertical support having either a cylindrical or polygonal shaft, and which always has a base and a capital.
Crossing: Space where the transept intersects with the nave along the main axis of the church (fig.1).
For columns, the base is the lowest portion of three parts, from top to bottom: the base, the shaft and the captical. Typically, Egyptian columns and Greek Doric columns have no base and are placed directly on the floor.
A decorative element at the head of a column dividing it from the masonry, or shaft, supporting it. The decoration is often a useful guide to the period of architecture.
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The column is divided into three main elements: the base, shaft and capital. The entablature consists of architrave, frieze and cornice. Three classical Greek orders developed (Doric, Ionic and Corinthian) and two Roman orders (Tuscan and Composite).
PILASTER: a rectangular column projecting only slightly from a wall, incorporates a capital, shaft and base, as one of the orders. Once used for stiffening, now more common for decoration. (IMAGE) ...
A vertical, rectangular feature projecting slightly from a wall, its form imitating a classical column with a base, shaft and capital.
Porte-Cochere
A porch at the door of a building for shelter, wide enough to allow access for a car.
Fluting - Narrow vertical grooves on shafts of columns and pilasters.
Piers - Compound columns supporting the arcades down each side of the main vessel, which may comprise groups of individual shafts or a monolithic unit.
Porch - The covered projecting structure in front of the doorway.
fluted - curved indentations that run up and down along a column's shaft.
(p. 44, p. 52, p. 58 & 59).
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