umns all round.

PERISTYLIUM, or PERISTYLE, in a Roman house, the inner
courtyard; also any space or enclosure with columns all
round it.

PISCINA, a small basin usually executed in stone and
placed within a sculptured niche, fixed at the side of
an altar in a church, with a channel to convey away the
water poured into it.

POLYCHROMY, the use of decorative colours.

PRECINCTS, the space round a church or religious house,
usually enclosed with a wall.

PRESBYTERY, the eastern part of a church, the chancel.

PROFILE (of a moulding), the outline which it would
present if cut across at right angles to its length.

PRONAOS, the front portion or vestibule to a temple.

PROPYLAEA, in Greek architecture, a grand portal or state
entrance.

PROTHYRUM, in a Roman house, the porch or entrance.

PSEUDO-PERIPTERAL, resembling, but not really being
peristylar.

PYLON, or PRO-PYLON, the portal or front of an Egyptian
temple.

QUADRIGA, a four-horse chariot.

ROMANESQUE, the style of Christian architecture which
was founded on Roman work.

ROTUNDA, a building circular in plan.

SACRISTY, the part of a church where the treasures
belonging to the church are preserved.

SHINTO TEMPLES, temples (in Japan) devoted to the Shinto
religion.

SPAN, the space over which an arch or a roof extends.

SPINA, the central wall of a Roman racecourse.

STILTED, raised, usually applied to an arch when its
centre is above the top of the jambs from which it
springs.

STRUTS, props.

STUPA, in Indian architecture, a mound or tope.

STYLOBATE, a series of steps, usually those leading up
to a Classic temple.

TAAS, a pagoda.

TABLINUM, in a Roman house, the room between the atrium
and the peristyle.

TALAR, in Assyrian architecture, an open upper story.

TENONED, fastened with a projection or tenon.

TESSELATED, made of small squares of material, applied
to coarse mosaic work.

TETRASTYLE, with four columns.

THERMAE, the great bathing establishments of the Romans.

TOPES, in Indian architecture, artificial mounds.

TRABEATED, constructed with a beam or beams, a term
usually employed in contrast to arches.

TRICLINIUM, in a Roman house, the dining-room.

TRIGLYPH, the channelled feature in the frieze