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  • Cabbage Rose
  • Cabochon
  • Campanile
  • Canales
  • Cantera Stone
  • Cantilevered
  • Capital
  • Cartouche
  • Caryatid
  • Casbah
  • Cassapanca
  • Cassone
  • Castellation
  • Ceilings
  • Certosina
  • Chairs
  • Chair Rail
  • Chamfer
  • Champleve
  • Chevron
  • Chimenea
  • Chimera
  • Chimney Cap
  • Chimney Pot
  • Chinoiserrie
  • Cinquefoil
  • Clavo
  • Cleopatra’s Needle
  • Cloisonne
  • Cloister
  • Colonnade
  • Colonnette
  • Columns
  • Concentric Circles
  • Coping
  • Corbel
  • Cornice
  • Crenellation
  • Crocket
  • Cubiform
  • Cupola
  • Curtain Wall
  • Curule
  • Cyclopean

Cabbage rose
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A decorative, flamoyant, overblown rose.  It was extremely popular in the Victorian era.

An ornament that was carved that resembled a polished stone or gem.

prima notteDetached bell-tower often set some distance away from its church. They can also be lofty towers that form parts of buildings.

Gutters projecting from a roof.

A form of quarry stone.

A projecting element, such as a beam or porch, supported at a single point or along a single line by a wall or column. It is stabilized by counterbalancing downward force around the point of the fulcrum.

The head or crowning feature of a column or pilaster.

Ramses IIAn oval frame with decorative detail centering it as well as surrounding it used as ornamentation for building moldings, borders, panels, etc. It can also frame the hieroglyphs that make up the name of a God or Royal person. It represents a looped rope which has the magical power to protect the name that is written inside of it.

CornerA sculpted female figure used in place of a column to support an entablature. They are often flanking a doorway, or as a decorative detail within an interior around a fireplace.