PraiseBuildings.com: Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Architecture

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Trascoro

In Spanish church architecture, a part of the choir separated from the main choir by an open passage at the crossing.

Travertine

A variety of limestone deposited by springs; usually banded; commonly coarsely cellular used as a building stone, especially for interior facing and flooring.

Trefoil

A three-lobed, cloverleaf pattern.

Trefoil Arch

An arch whose intrados has three lobes or foils.

Triapsidal

Having three apses, either side by side or forming a cloverleaf pattern at the sanctuary end of a church.

Triconch

Having apses with semidomes on three sides of a square chamber.

Triforium

In medieval church architecture, a shallow passage above the arches of the nave and choir and below the clerestory; characteristically open into the nave.

Triglyph

Trigonum

A mosaic of triangular pieces of marble, terra-cotta, glass or other materials.

Trilithon

Two upright monoliths spanned by a third, as at Stonehenge.

Tripartite Vault

A vault, covering a triangular space, which is formed by the intersection of three barrel vaults or three expanding vaults. Especially common in Romanesque Architecture.

Tudor Architecture

The final development of English Perpendicular Gothic architecture during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII (1485-1547) preceding Elizabethan architecture and characterized by four-centered arches.

Tudor Flower

An ornament of English Perpendicular Gothic buildings; a trefoil flower developed from the upright points of the crossing or the cusps of a foliated arch.

Tufted Carpet

Carpet made by punching pile yarn through a carpet backing material which has been previously woven; then the pile is cut to finish the carpet.

Turrett

A diminutive tower, characteristically corbeld from a corner.

Turret Step

A stone step, triangular in section, which forms, with other turret steps, a spiral or solid newel stair. Turret steps are tapered and have shaped ends which laid upon each other, constitue and central column or solid newel.

Tuscan Order

A simplified version of the Roman Doric order, having a plain frieze and no mutules in the cornice.

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Undercroft

A vaulted basement of a church often wholly or partly below ground level. A crypt.

Vagina

The upper part of the pedestal of a termius, from which the bust or figure seems to arise.