voussoir

They are all square, with door with voussoir, floor and vault.

A springer is an architectural term for the lowest voussoir on each side of an arch.

And it did not require readers to know the difference between a volute and a voussoir.

The method up to that time had been to build the voussoir arch with the stone course work parallel to the abutments.

Key identifying features of this style are the exaggerated keystone and voussoir around the central arched window.

Voussoir: a supporting brick in an arch, usually shaped to ensure that the joints appear even.

An early example of a voussoir arch appears in the Greek Rhodes Footbridge.

A gabled dormer and round-arched window with stone voussoir projects above each bay window.

The windows on both floors are framed in dark red rubbed bricks with the central voussoir brick enlarged to appear as a keystone.

Until the topmost voussoir, the keystone, is positioned the vault is not self-supporting.

Although each unit in an arch or vault is a voussoir, two units are of distinct functional importance: the keystone and the springer.

A voussoir (in the rusticated brick) is detailed at each of these first story openings by individually cut radiating bricks.

The entry is set within a recessed limestone surround, surmounted by a radiating voussoir with keystone.

Various architectural motifs-ablaq, the zigzag arch, and voussoir (rippled and plain) were used.

The 4th century BC Rhodes Footbridge rests on an early voussoir arch.

At the top of the single arch one can see the bearded head of Hercules, carved in high-relief, and his club on the adjoining voussoir.

A voussoir (pronounced /vuˈswɑr/) is a wedge-shaped element, typically a stone, used in building an arch or vault.

The facade is particularly noteworthy for its voussoir doorway and its windows framed by mouldings and corbels.

Made of quarry the building consists of two levels: the first is a portal with voussoir arches, supported by padded ornamental columns.

There were also two beak-head voussoirs; this type of voussoir is rare in Cheshire, and has been found in only one other church in the county.

Dating to the 4th century BC or early Hellenistic period, the modest structure represents the oldest known Greek bridge with a voussoir arch.

It has mullioned windows and is noteworthy for its finely carved fireplace with a joggle voussoir arch and its tall round chimney.

Its facade features stone quoins, splayed voussoir lintels on the one-over-one double-hung sash, and a wooden bracketed cornice.

The elements of a portal can include the voussoir, tympanum, an ornamented mullion or trumeau between doors, and columns with carvings of saints in the westwork of a church.

In contrast to these, most Roman stone bridges were faced with ashlar and rested on voussoir arches, a method which is dominant in other vaulted structures in Lycia too.