Spiral stairway seen from below; Melk Abbey, Austria
A spiral staircase from a residential home.
Spiral stairway at the Johnson Museum by I.M. Pei...
Spiral stairway at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University ...
staircase, stairway - a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps
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landing - structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods ...
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The enclosure of a stairway.
stalls
divisions within the choir, where clergy sat (or stood) during service. The stalls are often richly carved and fitted with misericords to help the clergy stand comfortably during long services.
Balustrade: A railing, as along a path or stairway. Baptismal font: A receptacle for water, used for baptism. Baptistery: A building or part of a church used for baptism.
Balustrade - a railing, as along a path or stairway.
Barbican - also called a hornwork. A structure built to protect the outside of an entrance. Can also be, as at Ludlow and Exeter, a special kind of towered gatehouse built in two parts.
Although more in the nature of a mechanical lift or elevator than a stair, moving stairways may perhaps find a place in this article owing to their resemblance and to the fact that their object is to convey the passenger quickly and easily to a ...
The door leads to an entryway with stairway and hall aligned along the center of the house. All rooms branch off of these.
In this huge building, there were numerous entrances, broad corridors, stairways, carefully planned passages of access, and six tiers of seats where the audience could watch comfortably.
Also called a staircase or stairway. A stair is the individual step within a series of steps that allows access from one floor to another.
Michelangelo - Laurentian Library - (1532)
St. Gatien - Tours - France ...
American staircase
Also called stairway
A flight or series of flights of steps and a supporting structure connecting separate levels
See also: newel ... stair-ends ...balustrade ... baluster ... turned ...
Stairwell - The enclosure of a stairway.
Stile - The vertical sides of a window sash.
Steel Siding - Heavy siding material which remains very durable and weather resistant.
Often, you can reach the cupola by climbing a stairway inside the building. This type of cupola is called a belvedere or a widow's walk. Some cupolas, called lanterns, have small windows which illuminate the areas below.
Road/ Street - Any highway, street, lane, pathway, alley, stairway, passage way, carriage way, foot way, square, place, or bridge, whether a through fare or not, ...
Balustrade - A railing, as along a path or stairway.
Barbican - The gateway or outworks defending the drawbridge.
Bar hole - Horizontal hole for timber bar used as a door-bolt.
NEWEL POST - a post at the foot of a straight stairway or one at a landing .
RISER - the vertical part of a step between the treads.
TREAD - the upper horizontal part of a step.
Trimmer - A beam or joist into which a header is framed in framing for a chimney, stairway, or other opening.
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Underwriting - Executing and delivering a policy of insurance on specified property.
newel The main post at the foot of a stairway or stoop.
oriel A projecting bay window carried on corbels or brackets.
Balustrade - Railing at a stairway, porch or roof
Bargeboard - Decorative boards located at the end of a gable ...
A heavy post placed at the end of the handrail at the bottom of a stairway.
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A recessed or hollow space in a wall, intended to hold a statue or ornament.
Balustrade - A series of short vertical posts, often ornamental, used to support a rail at a stairway, porch or roof.
Grand stairways of marble with wrought-iron railings, designed for theatrical entrances at social events
Coffered ceilings with elaborate figural paintings
Wood-paneled interior walls with classical murals ...
newel cap and post - the end post of a balustrade, the cap is on the top of the newel; an ornamented post at the top, bottom, or landing of a stairway that supports the handrail. (p. 16, p. 20, p. 22, p. 24, p. 28, p 32 p. 34, ).
Rampant vault - A continuous wagon vault, or a cradle vault, whose two abutments are located on an inclined plane, such as a vault supporting or forming the ceiling of a stairway.
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Sexapartite vault: see S ...
For instance, a foundation plan shows what you would see from above with only the foundation in place; a first-floor plan shows the shape of the first-floor platform and the position of external and internal walls, stairways, ...
It was protected front and back by panelling and the great rood or crucifix would have been fixed to the front.
Many rood lofts and crucifixes were destroyed at the Reformation. All that remains in St Lawrence are the stairways to access the loft ...
 See also: Architecture, House, Floor, Ornament, Roman
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