Architectural features illustrated
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Clerestory - Upper part of the nave of a large church, containing a series of windows.
Clock gable - also known as Dutch gable, is a gable or facade with decorative clock-shape, characteristic of traditional Dutch architecture.
Clock tower - A tower specifically designed to house a clock
Cloister -
Coffer - in architecture, is a sunken panel in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon that serves as a decorative device, usually in a ceiling or vault. Also called caissons, or lacunar
Column - A structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below.
Coping - The capping or covering of a wall.
Corbel - A structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.
Corinthian order - One of the three orders or organisational systems of Ancient Greek or classical architecture characterised by columns which stood on the flat pavement of a temple with a base, their vertical shafts fluted with parallel concave grooves topped by a capital decorated with acanthus leaves, that flared from the column to meet an abacus with concave sides at the intersection with the horizontal beam that they carried.
Cornice - Upper section of an entablature, a projecting shelf along the top of a wall often supported by brackets or corbels.
Crescent - terrace of houses constructed on a curve
Cresting - Ornamentation along the ridge of a roof.
Cross Springer - Block from which the diagonal ribs of a vault spring or start. The top of the springer is known as the skewback
Cross-wing - Wing attached to a main or original house block, its axis at right angles to the original block, and often gabled.
Crypt - stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building. It typically contains coffins, sarcophagi, or religious relics.
Cupola - A small, most often dome-like, structure on top of a building.
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