weight.
_Corbel-Table._--A row of corbels.
_Credence._--A small table or shelf near the altar on which the
bread and wine were placed before they were consecrated.
_Crocket._--A bunch of projecting flowers or foliage decorating
pinnacles, arches, etc.
_Cusps._--The projecting points in Gothic tracery, or inside an
arch; sometimes worked at the ends with leaves, flowers, or
heads.
_Dog-Tooth Moulding._--Ornaments usually consisting of four
plain leaves, arranged so as to form a point.
_Dripstone._--Projecting tablet or moulding over heads of
archways, windows, doorways, etc.
_Fan-Vaulting._--Vaulting in which the ribs rise with the same
curve and diverge equally in every direction from the springing
of the vault.
_Finial._--A foliated ornament ending a pinnacle or gable, etc.
_Flamboyant._--A name given to Late Decorated style of
architecture from the flame-like wavings of its tracery.
_Gargoyle._--A projecting spout, often carved in a grotesque
form.
_Groin._--The angle formed by the intersection of vaults.
_Herring-Bone Work._--Masonry in which the stones are placed
aslant, forming a fish-bone pattern.
_Jamb._--The side of a window or door, etc.
_Miserere._--A projecting bracket on the under side of the
seats of stalls, which were made to turn up; the monks were
allowed to lean on these brackets during the long services,
which were performed standing.
_Mullion._--Perpendicular bar between the lights of windows in
Gothic architecture.
_Nail-headed Moulding._--Moulding in imitation of ornamental
nail-heads.
_Newell._--The column round which a spiral staircase winds.
_Ogee._--A moulding partly concave and partly convex, forming a
round and a hollow. Term also applied to an arch formed of
contrasted curves.
_Orders._--The recesses of a divided arch.
_Parvise._--A small room over the porch.
_Pilaster._--A pillar, sometimes disengaged but generally
attached to a wall.
_Piscina._--A basin attached to the wall near the altar of a
church, where the priest washed his hands and rinsed the
chalice.
_Plate-Tracery._--Tracery which appears as if formed by
piercing a flat surface with ornamental patterns.
_Plinth._--The lowest division of the base of a column, or
projecting face at the bottom of a wall.
_Presbytery._--The part of a church where the high altar
stands.
_Reredos._--A screen at the back of an altar.
_Rood-Loft._--A gallery over the screen separating the nave
from the chancel, on which the great cross or _rood_ was fixed.
_Sedilia._--The seats for the officiating clergy.
_Soffit._--The under side of an arch, cornice, etc.
_Spandrel._--The triangular space between arches.
_Splay._--The expansion given to windows and other openings by
slanting the sides.
_Springing._--The point at which an arch unites with its
support.
_Squint._--An oblique opening in the wall of a church.
_Stoup._--A vessel or stone basin formed in the wall, serving
as a receptacle for holy water.
_String-Course._--A horizontal moulding running along a wall.
_Transom._--A horizontal cross-bar in a window.
_Triforium._--A gallery in the wall over the arches which
separates the body of the church from the aisles.
_Tympanum._--The space above the horizontal opening of a
doorway and the arch above; the space between an arch and the
triangular drip-stone or hood-mould which surmounts it.
INDEX
Aberdeen, 443
Bangor, 426
Bath, 161
Beverley, 327
Brechin, 442
Bristol, 138
Canterbury, 68
Carlisle, 272
Chester, 248
Chichester, 96
Dunblane, 444
Dunkeld, 445
Durham, 283
Ely, 377
Exeter, 164
Glasgow, 439
Glossary of Architectural Terms, 450
Gloucester, 178
Hereford, 204
Iona, 441
Kirkwall, 448
Lichfield, 230
Lincoln, 337
Liverpool, 263
Llandaff, 429
Manchester, 264
Newcastle, 282
Norwich, 393
Oxford, 125
Peterborough, 360
Ripon, 297
Rochester, 57
Salisbury, 108
Southwell, 351
St. Alban's, 409
St. Andrew's, 446
St. Asaph's, 423
St. David's, 432
St. Giles', Edinburgh, 447
St. Paul's, 8
The Architecture of the Cathedrals of Great Britain, 1
Truro, 177
Wakefield, 333
Wells, 149
Westminster, 35
Winchester, 85
Worcester, 216
York, 309
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Transcriber's Notes
Punctuation and spelling errors and inconsistent hyphenation have
been corrected.
Italic text is denoted by _underscore_ and bold text by =equal signs=.
In the inscriptions described on page 197, the letters a, e and u
which have macrons in the original text, have been represented in
this version using circumflexes, i.e. grâ, plê and Jhû.
In this version of the text, superscripts are represented using the
caret character, e.g. y^e.
The oe ligatures in the text are shown as separate oe characters.
In ambiguous cases, the text has been left as it appears in the
original book.