A dictionary of the architecture and archaeology of the middle ages: including words used by ancient and modern authors in treating of architectural and other antiquities ... also, biographical notices of ancient architects / By John Britton ... Illustrated by numerous engravings by J. Le Keux.

John Britton

Date:: 1838

Credit: A dictionary of the architecture and archaeology of the middle ages: including words used by ancient and modern authors in treating of architectural and other antiquities ... also, biographical notices of ancient architects / By John Britton ... Illustrated by numerous engravings by J. Le Keux. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Analogium. According to Du Cange, it was a kind of tomb, over the bodies of saints : analogia is applied to pulpits wherein the Gospels and Epistles were read. Anchor. An ornament in form of the flook of an anchor, or arrow-head, is frequently cut in the ovolo of Tuscan and Ionic capitals, as well as in the bed-moulding of Ionic and Corinthian cornices. It is usually accompanied by repre- sentations of an egg; and thence popularly called the egg and anchor.” Ancon. Lat.; Gr., the bend of the arm. An elbow, or angle, whence the French coin, a corner ; also the English quoins, or corner-stones. An CONE. A console, or ornament cut on the key-stone of an arch, or on the side of a door-case.—Gwilt’s Had. p. 179. And RON. Avd^ojv, Gr.; andron or andronitis, Lat.; andra, an- drion, and andronium, low Lat. An apartment, cloister, or gallery, assigned to the male part of a monastic establish- ment. In a Greek house the andronitis was usually situ- ated on the ground-floor, and contained the eating-rooms and other accommodations. — [Gwilds Vitruv. p. 185.] In Christian architecture it applies to that part of a church wherein men were separated from the women. — \_Bing- luinds Works, vol. i. p. 294.] It sometimes signified a place where people met to converse on business, similar to modern exchanges; but the term was more particularly used among the Greeks and Romans to denote a passage between two houses, or the different apartments of a house. Angel. Sax., Sp., Rus.; ayysXog, Gr. ; angelus, ange, Fr.; angelo. It.; anjo. Port.; engel, Ger. Figures of angels were very generally used as decorations on sepulchral monu- ments ; particularly on the raised tombs of the religious and pious laity. In the agreement with Pietro Torrigiano, for the construction of Henry Vllth’s tomb, at Westminster, 4 aungeils of erthe bakid in an oven after the colour of white marble,” are specified among the ornaments.—[Arc/i. Antiq, vol. II. p. 23; Brayley^s West. Abbey, Hen. VII.’s Chap, p. 54.] A series of demi-ano-els surrounds the interior of Henry’s chapel. In St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, they form a frieze, above the arches of the nave.—[Arc/?. A??/?y.vol. iii.$