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Aisle & Apse field sheet

Building: ______________________   Town: ______________   Date: __________   Style: ______________

Layout

West front
Narthex
Nave
Aisle
Transept
Crossing
Chancel
Choir
Apse
Ambulatory
Radiating chapel
Crypt
Cloister

Outside

Tower
Spire
Steeple
Belfry
Louvre
Portal
Tympanum
Archivolt
Gable
Shaped gable
Bell gable (espadaña)
Buttress
Flying buttress
Pinnacle
Battlement
Portico
Cupola
Quoins

Walls, arches & windows

Arcade
Round arch
Pointed arch
Four-centred arch
Ogee arch
Lancet window
Rose window
Oculus
Tracery
Mullion
Stained glass
Palladian window
Clerestory
Triforium
Gallery
Pier
Column
Capital
Classical orders
Pilaster
Rustication
Board and batten
Thick stucco walls
Glass wall

Roofs, vaults & domes

Timber roof over a vault
Barrel vault
Groin vault
Rib vault
Fan vault
Hammerbeam roof
Open timber roof
Dome
Pendentive
Drum
Lantern
Coffered ceiling
Clay tile roof
A-frame
Folded plate and shell roof

Ornament & details

Gargoyle
Crocket
Finial
Corbel
Bargeboard
Pediment
Broken pediment
Entablature
Volute
Mosaic
Painted illusion

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