Glue-Chipped Glass

 

Glue-Laminated Timber

A manufactured product consisting of four or more wood layers, none of which exceeds 2 inches in thickness, bonded together with adhesive. Used in church architecture to create wide spans for ceiling beams or columns.

Glyph

A sculpted pictography. A groove or channel, usually vertical intended as an ornament.

 

Gneiss

A coarse-grained metamorphic rock having discontinuous foliation usually dark in color composed mainly of quartz, feldspar, mica and ferromagnesian minerals.

Gold Bronze

A powdered copper alloy used in the manufacture of gold or bronze paint, usually contains copper, zinc, lead and tin.

 

Gold Leaf

Very thin sheets of hammered or rolled gold using for gilding and inscribing of glass which contains nearly pure gold with a very small percentage of either copper or silver.

Gold Size

A varnish used to attach gold leaf or foil to a surface. This product turns sticky very quickly on application and then sets very slowly.

Gospel Hall

A term for a Protestant Christian church

  

Gospel Side

The north side of a church - when the main altar is at the east - from which the Gospel is read.

 

Gothic Arch

A term denoting a pointed arch.

  

Gothic Architecture

The architectural style of the High Middle ages in Western Europe which emerged from Romanesque and Byzantine forms in France during the later 12th century. Its great works are cathedrals characterized by the pointed arch, the rib vault, the development of the exterior flying buttress and the gradual reduction of the walls to a system of richly decorated fenestration. Gothic architecture lasted until the 16th century when it was succeeded by the classical forms of the Renaissance. In France and German one speaks of the Early, High and Late Gothic; the French middle phase is referred to as Rayonnant, the late phase as the usual divisions are Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular.

Gothic Cathedral

 

Gothic Revival

A movement originating in the 18th and culminating in the 19th century flourishing throughout Europe and North America which aimed at reviving the spirit and forms of Gothic Architecture.

Granite

An igneous rock having crystals of grains of visible size; consists mainly of quartz, feldspar and mica used in the construction of ornamental buildings such as churches.

  

Greek Cross

 

  

Gridiron

A framework, usually of steel, over a theater stage and immediately below the stage roof used as the structural support from which scenery and lighting equipment is supported.

 

Groin

The ridge, edge, or curved line formed by the intersection of the surfaces of two intersecting vaults.

 

Groined Rib

A rib under the curve of a groin, either to mask the groin or to support it.

 

Groined Vault

A compound vault in which barrel vaults intersect, forming arises called groins.

 

Grotesque

Sculptured or painted ornament involving fanciful distortions of human and animal forms, sometimes combined with plant motifs which has no counterpoint in nature. Typical in Gothic Architecture.