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Structural lintel Lintel above a door in Paris. A lintel or lintol is a type of beam (a horizontal structural element) that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces. It can be a decorative architectural element, or a combined ornamented/structural item.
The Renaissance Revival section uses brick dentil courses and corbels, cast iron lintels, radiating brick arches, and bluestone water tables. The easternmost (left) portion follows the German Romanesque Revival style, featuring jutting brick header arches above the windows, cast iron lintels above the doors, and iron shutter hinges.
The late Romanesque tympanum of Vézelay Abbey, Burgundy, France, 1130s. A tympanum (pl.: tympana; from Greek and Latin words meaning "drum") is the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance, door or window, which is bounded by a lintel and an arch. [1]
One of many 16th century door lintels in Edinburgh's Old Town. The stones were placed where they would be easily and frequently seen by visitors, usually on the lintel above the front door of a house, above a fireplace or in a prominent position facing the entrance or in the gardens, such as above a doorway in wall. [1]
[1] [5] Above the lintel, there is a three-step cornice decorated with Ionic dentils. [5] [12] The portal's door opening is rectangular, [12] and the door is from the 18th century, single-winged, reinforced with iron wrought iron straps, and made of solid wooden planks. [1] [5]
The wooden elements – including doors, ceilings, and the gallery lintels – were typically made of cedar wood and were richly carved and painted. Wealthier homes had reception rooms at ground level, opening off the patio, which were equally if not even more richly decorated, sometimes with elaborate wooden cupola ceilings.
Still in common use in the 21st century, especially at shop entrances and kitchen doors Kabeshiro (壁代, lit. ' wall-curtain ') more images: Lintel-mounted curtain, with ties Made of narrow-loom cloth . Similar to a kichō, which however is free-standing. Coloured streamers are called nosuji (野筋), and are ties for tying it up. [10] Archaic
Catnic was established in 1969 when Brian Robinson took his idea to entrepreneur Alfred Gooding.The company conceived, developed and pioneered the steel lintel designed for the house building industry, and soon won a major share of the UK market.