Looking at Buildings

Glossary

Affronted: Descriptive of two figures placed front to front. Compare addorsed.
Aggregate: Small stones or rock chippings used in concrete and similar hard-setting materials.
Aisle: Subsidiary space alongside the body of a building, separated from it by columns, piers or posts. Also (especially Scots) projecting wing of a church, often for special use, e.g. by a guild or by a landed family whose burial place it may contain.
Almonry: A building from which alms are dispensed to the poor.
Altarpiece: A painting or carving above or behind an altar.
Ambo: Raised platform or pulpit in Early Christian churches.
Ambulatory: (lit. walkway): Aisle around the sanctuary of a church.
Angle buttress: A buttress set at 90 degrees at the angle of a building.
Angle roll: Roll moulding in the angle between two planes.
Angle round: (Scots): A rounded bartizan or turret, usually roofless, set at a corner.