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| A passage or corridor parallel to the Nave of a church or ancient basilica and seperated from it by columns or piers. |
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| A table like structure for the celebration of the Sacraments in a Christian building; for sacrifice or offerings in antiquity. |
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| A semicircular, polygonal, or rectangular extension at the end of a Roman basilica or a Christian church. |
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| A Conduit or channel for transporting water which may be underground or may be elevated above the groun when it crosses low areas on bridges. The term has ended up being applied principally to the structures supporting the channel. |
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| A curved construction over an opening. A structure formed by ____ stones, whose wedge-shaped voussoirs are jointed on a radius. Most Roman ______ are round ______. |
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| An opening surmounted by an arch; an ______ may be a range of arches and openings forming a portico. |
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| The clonnaded forecourt of a Christian church. The central hal at the entrance of the Roman House with a central opening in the roof (the Compluvium) and a pool below (the Impluvium). Several rooms lead off this rectanglar hall. |
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| A separate building, or part of a church, used for the sacramental ceremony of recpetion into Christianity. |
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| Describes a round vault of semi circular vault form. Has arch stones. May also be curved. |
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| It was a public market hall or court building. Originally it was a rectangular building with central nave flanked by aisles and an apse at the end. Later it became any large covered hall-like building. |
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| A vertical compartment of a building in which several such compartmentsd are repeated; each ___ might be defined by columns, piers, windows, or vaulting units. |
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| A projecting mass of masonry serving to provide additional strength for the wall as it resists the lateral thrust exerted by an arch or vault. Flying ________: in a church, a ________ in the form of an arch, or set of arches, that carries the thrust of a nave vault over the side aisle roofs down to a massive external pier. |
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| Underground cemetary much used by early Christians, consisting of passages with niches for burial and small chambers for services. |
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| A bishops church, usually the principal church in a bishop's jurisdiction. The words comes from the bishop's throne or chair. |
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| In ancient Rome, an oblong space for horse and chariot races, often arranged with tiers of seats on three sides. In England, an open space circular or semicircular in shape surrounded by buildings. |
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| A part of a building that rises above adjoining rooftops and is pierced by a window openings to admit light into the interior. |
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| Open square court surrounded by a covered ambulatory, often arcaded. It isgenrally attached to a church or monastery and is distinguished from a secular courtyard by its function as a place of seclusion and repose. |
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| A sunken square or polygonal decorative panel in a ceiling, vault or within an arch. |
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| One of the five classical orders; favored in late Roman architecture. On the capital, large conjoined Ionic volutes are combined with the acanthus leaves of the Corinthean order. |
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| A small dome, particularly a dome atop a roof or small tower. |
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| A meeting places with seating, became a recess in an architectural structure, usually semi circular or sometimes rectangular. The ______ was often placed on the edge of a portico. |
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| An arch or half arch which transfers the thrust or vault or roof from an upper part of a wall to a lower support. |
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| A public civil and commercial square in ancient ROme. It was usually surrounded by a colonnade and included a basilica and temple. |
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| An upper story open on one side o a building's main interior space or to the exterior. In a church a _______ runs above an aisle and opens onto the nave. |
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| A vault formed when two-barrel vaults ofidentical size intersect at right angles. |
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| It was a block or an urban island; then by extension, block or several floors of either apartments or administrative and commercial offices. |
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| The building complex for a monastic order. |
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| A pattern formed by inlaying small pieces of stone, tile, glass, or enamel into a cement, mortar, or plaster matrix. |
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| A slender upright dividing an opening, usually a window, into two or more sections. |
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| A colonnaded porch in front of the facade of a church, in early Christian architecture often serving as the fourth side of an atrium; also it is a transverse vestibule preceding the church nave and aisles. |
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| Central, longitudinal space of a basilica church, separated from the aisles or from side chapels and extending from teh main entrance to the transept or to the apse. |
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| Italian term for a city square. |
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| Massive vertical support, often rectangular in plan and therefor differing from a column, sometimes have its own capital and base. When combined with pilasters, columns, or shafts, it is called a compound ____. It proportions are for more variable than in a classical column. ____ is also the term used for the solid mass between windows, doors and arches. |
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| The raised base of a Roman temple. This high base is accessible by one or more flights of stairs. |
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| Large stone or block laid at the corner of a building (or at an opening) used either for reinforcement of the angle or for ornament. |
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| A slender, projecting arched member of a vault, used to facilitate its construction, reinforce its structure, or articulate its form in varying ways in Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, Gothic and Baroque architecture. |
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| A large, circular window with tracery arranged like the spoked of a wheel or other radial patterns, commonly found in Gothic facades. |
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| Masonry with massive, strongly textures or rough-hewn blocks and sharply sunken joints distinguished from sooth ashlar. |
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| The area around the principal altar in a Christian church. |
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| The triangular area between the sides of 2 adjacent arches and line across their tops. |
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| The point where the curve of an arch begins. |
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| Small pieces of marble, colored stone or glass used for making mosaics. |
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| Ornamental intersecting stonework on Gothic windows also ued on the surface of late Gothic vaults. Varied techniques and patterns are giving names such as plate tracery (built of in coursed layers like the framing walls), bar tracery (constructed of complex fragments of the total pattern) flowing _______ (seemingly freehand, curvilinear design, through compass-drawn), etc. |
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| Arched roofing system in dressed stone, brickwork or concrete, which, in Roman architecture, generally gives a barrel or semicircular shape. |
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