GLOSSARY - for Beaconsfield Road.

architrave - the lowest of the 3 divisions of an entablature; also, moulded frame surrounding a door or window opening.

axis - any line in a regular figure which divides it into two symmetrical parts; hence, loosely, centre line.

(x) bays - from early times the sections in which timber framed buildings were made; so, vertical divisions in the length of e.g. a barn, cathedral, Georgian house etc.

column - upright member (post), circular on plan and usually tapering; (base, shaft & capital) carrying an entablature.

'compressed' brick - machine made brick not yet developed to the pressed brick (Accrington, Ruabon, etc.) of e.g. Princes Rd.

cornice - the top, projecting, division of an entablature; also any projecting ornamental moulding finishing the top of a building.

eclectic - 'selected such (motifs) as pleased them from every school' (Liddell & Scott, of philosophers.)

entablature - the upper horizontal part of an order (a beam) consisting of architrave, frieze and cornice.

frieze - middle division of an entablature, frequently decorated.

Gothic - the architecture of the pointed arch and its system, 'Early English' ( 13th century), 'Decorated', 'Perpendicular' and 'Tudor' (16th cent.) with certain survivals. (We owe the descriptive terms to Thomas Rickman - see page 21.)

Gothick  - Strawberry Hill, 1747-76, was the 'Gothick' plaything of Horace Walpole - hence a fashionable dressing up with motifs without the underlying structural system of Gothic architecture.

'in antis' (see drawing) - when columns are set within the line of a building.

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