Prakfalvi Endre: Roman Catholic Churches in Unified Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2003)
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Glossary aedicule: a niche or window framed by columns antependium: veil or hanging for the front of an altar apse: semicircular or polygonal recess, usually with vaulted roof architrave: i. main beam resting on two or more columns; 2. moulded frame round a doorway, window or arch basilican layout/arrangement: rectangular form of a basilica, usually involving a wide nave with aisles and an apse at one end capital: head of a pillar or pilaster, often ornamented coffered ceiling: a ceiling with panels cymatium: uppermost member of the cornice in Classical architecture exedra: semi-circular or rectangular recess, often with seating finial: ornament finishing off the apex of a roof or gable fronton: a gable or gable-like ornament crowning a window or other small opening Greek-cross layout: shaped like a 'plus’ sign; each arm of the transept and nave, meeting at a central point, are equal in length helm roof: like a blunt steeple, usually with a gable on each face lancet window: high, narrow pointed window, characteristic of Gothic architecture lantern: superstructure, often cylindrical, on a dome, tower or roof, open below and admitting light at the sides Latin-cross layout: a traditional nave-and-transept crucifix form, with the first part of the nave longer than the other lesene: a pilaster strip lunette: aperture in a concave ceiling or dome to admit light mullion: vertical shaft, usually of stone, dividing a window pendentive: spherical triangle formed at the intersection of a dome and arches springing from supporting columns pilaster: column of rectangular section projecting from a wall rosette: rose-shaped ornamentation or window spandrel: space between the shoulder of an arch and an adjoining arch or moulding above stele: an upright slab, inscribed, carved or painted tondo: circular painting or wall sculpture 78
