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Neo-Byzantine
London
The revival in the late 19th and early 20th centuries of the Byzantine style associated with Eastern or Orthodox Christianity, which originated at Byzantium (Constantinople) in the 5th century. Characterized by round arches, vaults and domes, ornament of emblematic and symbolic significance, and the use of mosaic.
Neo-Classicism
Harvey Lonsdale Elmes,
1841-56
A tendency within classical architecture, at its peak in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, which aimed at a purer imitation of the buildings of the Greeks and Romans, or at a more logical and rigorous use of the elements of the classical style.
Neo-Georgian
City of London
The revival of the British and Irish architecture of the 18th and early 19th centuries. It often depends for its effects on sash windows, symmetry, and carefully calculated proportions rather than on displays of columns and grand formal features. At its peak in the 1920s, it can be traced back to the late 19th century and is still current as a style mostly for private houses.
Neo-Renaissance
By J.E. Gregan, 1848
The classical manner of the 15th to the 17th centuries, especially that of Italy, as revived in the 19th century and later.
Neo-Vernacular
A tendency within (especially) 20th-century architecture, at its strongest since the 1970s, which seeks to evoke local traditions of building, usually in pursuit of a friendly, domestic image.
Neo-Wren
Midland Bank,
Piccadilly, London
A style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, based on the works of the English Baroque architect Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) and his contemporaries. Sometimes called Wrenaissance.
Neolithic
New Stone Age in Britain, c. 3500 B.C. until the Bronze Age, c. 2000 B.C.
Newel
Central or corner post of a staircase. A newel stair ascends round a central supporting newel; in Scotland called a turnpike stair.
Night stair
"Stair from the dormitory into the transept of an abbey or monastery church, used for entry to celebrate night services."
Nodding ogee
An ogee or double-curved pointed arch that also projects forward at the top.

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