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Aeolic Capital
Primitive type of Ionic capital with volutes seeming to grow from the shaft, and a palmette between the volutes.Two types of proto-Ionic capital:(left) from Larissa; (right) from Neandria.
anathyrosis
Smooth dressing of the margin of ashlar stone or of the drums comprising the shaft of a Classical column to ensure an accurate masonry joint.
Antonine column
Monumental Tuscan-Doric column in Rome supposedly commemorating Emperor Antoninus Pius (ad 138–61). Set on a large pedestal, its shaft is embellished with sculptured reliefs arranged in a spiral ...
apophyge
1 Outward curve, called congé or scape, connecting the shaft of a Classical column to the fillets over the base and under the astragal beneath the capital.2 Hypotrachelium of the Tuscan capital or ...
astragal
1 Baguette, bead, chaplet, small convex moulding, or roundel, especially the ring of semicircular section at the top of the shaft of most Classical columns (except Greek Doric), defining the bottom ...
Attic base
Commonest type of base of a Classical column (used with all Orders except Greek Doric and (properly) Tuscan) consisting of (usually) a plinth over which is a large convex torus ring, a fillet, then a ...
band of a shaft
Annulets, bandelets, bandlets, or shaft-rings around colonnettes and slender shafts in Gothic architecture, at the junctions of monolithic lengths, often tying the shafts to the pier behind, as in a ...
banded column
A column whose shaft is broken up by the addition of bands or blocks of stonework. Such columns are a common feature of Mannerist and Baroque architecture.
bowtell
Also called boltel, bottle, boultel, boultin, a plain moulding with a convex section, such as a roll-moulding, ovolo, or torus. It is larger than an astragal or bead, and is sometimes used to ...
Byzantine architecture
The Byzantine, or Eastern Roman, Empire, began with the foundation of Constantinople (formerly Byzantium) in ad 324 and ended with its capture by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The Byzantine style began ...
cable
1 Rope-moulding carved to look like a rope, with twisted strands, found in Roman Antiquity (e.g. Corinthian Order of the thermae at Nîmes), but mostly associated with Romanesque architecture, ...
canal
1 Channel, gutter, or pipe to convey any liquid, usually water.2 Long, narrow, artificially created water-course for the ornamentation of a park, or for inland navigation.3 Flute in the shaft of a ...
canton
Pier or other projection at an angle of a building, such as antae, columns, pilasters, or rusticated quoins. Any work of architecture with this condition is said to be cantoned, from the French ...
capital
The upper part of a column or pilaster set above the shaft. Each of the classical architectural Orders has a distinctive capital.
carolitic
Properly corollitic, column with foliated shaft embellished with branches and leaves winding spirally around it.
cathetus
1 Axis of an Ionic volute-eye.2 Axis of any cylinder or drum, such as a col-umn-shaft or colonnette.
Charles Robert Cockerell
(1788–1863).One of the most gifted and scholarly architects working in England within the Classical tradition in C19, his work was at once bold yet fastidious, thoroughly based on archaeologically ...
column
[Co]An architectural feature which is both structural and decorative: a cylindrical pillar of wood or stone composed of three parts, a base, a shaft, and a capital. In large stone examples the shaft ...
