Cemetery

An edifice or area where the dead are interred.

Cenotaph

A monument erected to the memory of a person buried in another place.

Centring

The temporary woodwork, or framing, whereon any vaulted work is constructed.

Cesspool

A well under a drain or pavement to receive the waste water and sediment.

Chamfer

The bevelled edge of anything originally right angled.

Chancel

That part of a Gothic church in which the altar is placed.

Chantry

A little chapel in ancient churches, with an endowment for one or more priests to say mass for the relief of souls out of purgatory.

Chapel

A building for religious worship, erected separately from a church, and served by a chaplain.

Chaplet

A moulding carved into beads, olives, etc.

Cincture

The ring, listel, or fillet, at the top and bottom of a column, which divides the shaft of the column from its capital and base.

Circus

A straight, long, narrow building used by the Romans for the exhibition of public spectacles and chariot races. At the present day, a building enclosing an arena for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship.

Clerestory

The upper part of the nave of a church above the roofs of the aisles.

Cloister

The square space attached to a regular monastery or large church, having a peristyle or ambulatory around it, covered with a range of buildings.

Cofferdam

A case of piling, water-tight, fixed in the bed of a river, for the purpose of excluding the water while any work, such as a wharf, wall, or the pier of a bridge, is carried up.

Collar-beam

A horizontal beam framed between two principal rafters above the tie-beam.

Colonnade

A range of columns.

Columbarium

A pigeon-house.

Column

A vertical cylindrical support under the entablature of an order.

Common-rafters

The same as jack-rafters, which see.

Conduit

A long, narrow, walled passage underground, for secret communication between different apartments. A canal or pipe for the conveyance of water.

Conservatory

A building for preserving curious and rare exotic plants.

Consoles, - The same as ancones, which see.

Contour

The external lines which bound and terminate a figure.

Convent

A building for the reception of a society of religious persons.

Coping

Stones laid on the top of a wall to defend it from the weather.

Corbels

Stones or timbers fixed in a wall to sustain the timbers of a floor or roof.

Cornice

Any moulded projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed.

Corona

That part of a cornice which is between the crown-moulding and the bed-mouldings.

Cornucopia

The horn of plenty.

Corridor

An open gallery or communication to the different apartments of a house.

Cove

A concave moulding.

Cripple-rafters

The short rafters which are spiked to the hip-rafter of a roof.

Crockets

In Gothic architecture, the ornaments placed along the angles of pediments, pinnacles, etc.

Crosettes

The same as ancones, which see.

Crypt

The under or hidden part of a building.

Culvert

An arched channel of masonry or brickwork, built beneath the bed of a canal for the purpose of conducting water under it. Any arched channel for water underground.

Cupola

A small building on the top of a dome.

Curtail-step

A step with a spiral end, usually the first of the flight.

Cusps

The pendants of a pointed arch.

Cyma

An ogee. There are two kinds; the cyma-recta, having the upper part concave and the lower convex, and the cyma-reversa, with the upper part convex and the lower concave.

Dado

The die, or part between the base and cornice of a pedestal.

Dairy

An apartment or building for the preservation of milk, and the manufacture of it into butter, cheese, etc.

Dead-shoar

A piece of timber or stone stood vertically in brickwork, to support a superincumbent weight until the brickwork which is to carry it has set or become hard.

Decastyle

A building having ten columns in front.

Dentils

(From the Latin, denies, teeth.) Small rectangular blocks used in the bed-mouldings of some of the orders.

Diastyle

An intercolumniation of three, or, as some say, four diameters.

Die

That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice; it is also called a dado.

Dodecastyle

A building having twelve columns in front.

Donjon

A massive tower within ancient castles, to which the garrison might retreat in case of necessity.

Dcoks

A Scotch name given to wooden brick.

Dormer

A window placed on the roof of a house, the frame being placed vertically on the rafters.

Dormitory

A sleeping-room.

Dovecote

A building for keeping tame pigeons. A columbarium.

Echinus

The Grecian ovolo.

Elevation

A geometrical projection drawn on a plane at right angles to the horizon.

Entablature

That part of an order which is supported by the columns; consisting of the architrave,frieze, and cornice.

Eustyle

An intercolumniation of two and a quarter diameters.

Exchange

A building in which merchants and brokers meet to transact business.

Extrados

The exterior curve of an arch.

Facade

The principal front of any building.

Face-mould

The pattern for marking the plank out of which hand-railing is to be cut for stairs, etc.

Facia, or Fascia

A flat member, like a band or broad fillet.

Falling-mould

The mould applied to the convex, vertical surface of the rail-piece, in order to form the back and under surface of the rail, and finish the squaring.