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Crypto-porticus

Architecture; General architecture

Concealed or covered passage, generally underground, though lighted and ventilated from the open air. One of the best-known examples is the crypto-porticus under the palaces of the Caesars in Rome. ...

Feretory

Architecture; General architecture

Enclosure or chapel within which the ferreter shrine, or tomb (as in Henry VII.'s chapel), was placed.

Impost block

Architecture; General architecture

Cubical block of stone above the capitals in a Byzantine church, used to carry the arches and vault, the springing of which had a superficial area greatly in excess of the column which carried them.

Modillion

Architecture; General architecture

Enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice and above the bedmold of the Corinthian entablature. It is probably so called because of its arrangement in regulated distances.

Dosseret

Architecture; General architecture

Cubical block of stone above the capitals in a Byzantine church, used to carry the arches and vault, the springing of which had a superficial area greatly in excess of the column which carried them.

Belfry

Architecture; General architecture

Chamber or stage in a tower where bells are hung. The term is also used to describe the manner in which bricks are laid in a wall so that they interlock.