sarcophagus: A stone coffin, often bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc.
Compare with: mausoleum, memorial brass
screen facade: A facade which is so highly decorated with sculpture or other decorative elements that it acts as a screen placed in front of the facade. It may seem to hide the face of the building from view.
Compare with: narthex, westwork
See also: west end
scriptorium: Area in a monastery where books and documents were written, copied, and illuminated.
Other parts of monastery: chapter house, cloister, refectory
segmented dome or cloister vault: A dome placed over a polygonal base. It is not a semi-sphere, but is formed of curved sections which correspond to the parts of the polygon on which it rests.
Compare with squinch
semi-dome: A half dome.
Compare with dome
sexpartite rib vault: A rib vault which is divided into six sections. sexpartite rib vault: A rib vault whose surface is divided into six sections by three ribs.
See also rib vault
Other types of rib vaults: fan, net, quadripartite
shaft: The structural member which serves as the main support of a column or pier. The shaft is between the capital and the base.
See also abacus or impost block, base, capital, column, pier
socle: A low projecting base for a wall or statue.
See also jamb figures, trumeau figure
soffit: The underside of an arch, opening, or projecting architectural element.
See also: arch.
Other parts of an arch: keystone, springer, voussoir.
span (of an arch or
vault):
The horizontal distance between the two supporting members of an
arch or vault.
spandrel:
The roughly triangular wall space between two adjacent
arches. See also arcade spiral staircase:
A
staircase whose steps wind around a central, vertical axis. spire: An elongated, pointed structure which rises from a tower,
turret,or roof. Compare with pinnacle
spring line (of an arch or a vault):
The point or line at which an arch or vault begins to curve.
springer:
The lowest voussoir on each side of an arch. It is where the
vertical support for the arch terminates and the curve of the arch
begins. squinch: An arch, or a system of concentrically wider and gradually
projecting
arches, placed at the corners of a square base to act as the transition
to a circular dome placed on the base. Contrast with pendentive stringcourse:
A continuous projecting horizontal band set in the surface
of a wall and usually molded. Synagoga Personification
of Judiasm. Often appears with Ecclesia (Personification of church). Both
appear as female figures, Ecclesia crowned and holding a chalice and
Synagoga blindfolded and holding the tablets of the law.
See also
boss,
keystone,
rise,
spring line.
See also
arch,
rise,
span.