refectory: A dining room in a monastery.
Other parts of monastery: chapter house, cloister, scriptorium.
relieving arch: An arch which encloses an arch or a window or other opening. It helps relieve some of the weight on the arch of the opening.
Compare with blind arch
reliquary:
A container for relics. Often reliquaries were in the form of caskets,
though it was quite common for them to be shaped like statues or
body
parts (such as hands or heads).
retable: An altarpiece, decorated with painting or sculpture which stands
at the back of an altar. rib: An arch of masonry, often molded,
which forms part of the framework
on which a vault rests. Ribs generally project from the undersurface of
the vault. Compare with:monstrance.
See also rib vault
Types of ribs:
diagonal rib, lierne,
ridge rib, tierceron,
transverse rib
Compare with infilling or webbing
rib vault:
ridge rib or longitudinal ridge rib:
A rib which runs down the apex of the vault in a longitudinal direction.
rise (of an arch or a vault):
The vertical distance between the spring line of an arch or vault and the
keystone or boss.
rose window:
A circular window composed of patterned tracery arranged in petal-like
formation.
Types of rib vaults: fan, net,
quadripartite, sexpartite
Compare with: barrel or tunnel vault, groin vault
Other types of ribs:diagonal,
lierne,
tierceron,
transverse rib.
See also rib vault
See also
boss,
keystone,
span,
spring line.
Compare with lancet window.