Stepped - Recessed in a series of ledges.
Steyned - Lined (like in a well).
Stockade - Solid fence of heavy timbers.
Stepped merlon: A merlon which rose to its apex in two or more steps. A variation was where the top of the steps was sloped towards the exterior of the parapet. See Irish battlements, Venetian battlements.
I stepped over the great western gate, and passed very gently, and sidling, through the two principal streets, only in my short waistcoat, for fear of damaging the roofs and eaves of the houses with the skirts of my coat.
Corbiestepped or
Crowstepped
squared stones forming steps upon a gable
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Triple-stepped crepidoma with stylobate at top, in the Doric Temple of Segesta, Sicily ...
A rectangular stepped tower using pyramid forms to attain height.
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a trapezoidal stepped structure representing a mountain in ancient Mesopotamia.
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ziggurat - a stepped pyramidal form in Art Deco style architecture; loosely based on the ziggurat temples of the Assyrians and Babylonians. A Minneapolis example of a ziggurat roof is the Foshay Tower.
Crepidoma - The stepped base of a Greek temple.
Crest or cresting - An ornamental finish along the top of a screen, wall, or roof, usually decorated and sometimes perforated.
At the head of the slope it is level, at the side of the slope it is raking or stepped.
Abutment Piece - A sill or sole plate.
This evolved into the stepped pyramid and finally into the fully developed, plane-sided pyramid, of which the largest and best preserved are those of Khufu (built c. 2570 bc) and Khafre (c. 2530 bc) at Giza, near Cairo.
stepped frontispiece and stepped window head
Volutes in door surrounds
Strips of windows with decorated iron grille work in surrounds to add vertical feeling
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Stepped levels
Rounded parapet
Spouts in the parapet to direct rainwater
Vigas (heavy timbers) extending through walls to support the roof
Latillas (poles) placed above vigas in angled pattern
Deep window and door openings
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The frontispiece has a stepped gable that holds the date. The front porch has a door with a low lancet arch, dripmold, and label stops. Above the porch is a balustraded balcony with twin lancet doors.
corbiestep - a gable with stepped sides, used to mask a pitched roof
Corinthian order - classical fluted columns, slender with ornate capitals decorated with stylized leaves ...
echelon, echelon apse: apse flanked by chapels placed in a stepped or ladder-wise manner.
echinus: the convex or ovolo moulding like a cushion below the abacus of a Doric capital.
egg-and-dart: an ovolo moulding ornamented with egg-shapes ...
corbeled towers:
a tower that is stepped outward and upward from a vertical wall
cornice:
a horizontal molded projection that crowns or competes a building or wall ...
Soaker
- a short flashing stepped horizontally, to coincide with individual stones or bricks. Most commonly found on chimney stacks.
Double-fronted - House front consisting of two principle bays, often stepped, perhaps with a central door or porch.
Double-hung sash window - A window with two sashes sliding vertically past each other within the frame.
In Islamic architecture, a raised pulpit that is reached via a stepped structure. It is located usually to the right of a mosque's mihrab. It is used by the imam (prayer leader) for sermons and prayer.
Corbel -- In masonry, a projection, or one of a series of projections, each stepped progressively farther forward with height and articulating a cornice or supporting an overhanging member.
Inside of these temples, they Mayas preformed all type of ceremonies within two small, stepped, dark rooms inside of this temple. The back wall of the inner room has a carved face of this god.
ROOF Roofs can be steep, flat or gently sloped and take many forms, gable, gambrel, hipped, stepped gable, shed, pent or Mansard. The roof type is an important key to identifying the style of a building.
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This building is on a point. It is a trapezoid.
The normal stepped front facade.
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Ziggurat
In ancient Assyria and Babylonia, a tower in the shape of a stepped pyramid. It formed the base of a temple.
FRIEZE
A decorative band usually placed along the top of a wall. Stencils cut from cow hides were used by workers to create repeated patterns such as this Greek key or stepped fret pattern.
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Yet from the very instant when God created the world, he had stepped outside the eternal in order to establish his creature --and himself-- in time and in a destiny that was a straight line.
Stepped flashings are used over the soakers at a joint against a wall.
Soffit - the underside of an arch, beam, staircase, eaves or other feature of a building.
Soil Pipe/Soil Stack - a vertical pipe conveys sewage to the drains.
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