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2. Loretto Chapel - Wikipedia

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   The chapel was commissioned by the Sisters of Loretto for their girls' school, Loretto Academy, in 1873. Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy had brought in two French architects, Antoine Mouly and his son Projectus, to work on the St. Francis Cathedral project, and suggested that the Sisters could make use of their services on the side to build a much-needed chapel for the academy. [4]

3. Hanging Church - Wikipedia

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   The church is approached by twenty-nine steps; early travelers to Cairo dubbed it "the Staircase Church". [2] The land surface has risen by some six metres since the Roman period, so the Roman tower is mostly buried below ground, reducing the visual impact of the church's elevated position.

4. Post and lintel - Wikipedia

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   This is usually used to hold up a roof, creating a largely open space beneath, for whatever use the building is designed. The horizontal elements are called by a variety of names including lintel , header, architrave or beam , and the supporting vertical elements may be called posts , columns , or pillars .

5. Witch window - Wikipedia

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   A Vermont or witch window. In American vernacular architecture, a witch window (also known as a Vermont window, among other names) is a window (usually a double-hung sash window, occasionally a single-sided casement window) placed in the gable-end wall of a house [1] and rotated approximately 1/8 of a turn (45 degrees) from the vertical, leaving it diagonal, with its long edge parallel to the ...

6. Clerestory - Wikipedia

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   According to the Hebrew Bible, Solomon's Temple featured clerestory windows made possible by the use of a tall, angled roof and a central ridgepole. [3] The clerestory was used in the Hellenistic architecture of classical antiquity. The Romans applied clerestories to basilicas of justice and to the basilica-like thermae and palaces.

7. Jacobean architecture - Wikipedia

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   The Jacobean east wing of Crewe Hall, Cheshire, built in 1615–36 Bank Hall, Bretherton, built in 1608. Reproductions of the Classical orders had already found their way into English architecture during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, frequently based upon John Shute's The First and Chief Grounds of Architecture, published in 1563, with two other editions in 1579 and 1584.