. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations . —a round church—•is a representative specimen of the transitionperiod of architecture in Lngland from the NoR-JIAN to the Early Lnglish. The Easternpart is a most excellent specunen of plain lightEarly English, and its growing and slender piersare perhaps unequalled. {A/e/c/uaii, Architee-tiire in Engl
. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations . —a round church—•is a representative specimen of the transitionperiod of architecture in Lngland from the NoR-JIAN to the Early Lnglish. The Easternpart is a most excellent specunen of plain lightEarly English, and its growing and slender piersare perhaps unequalled. {A/e/c/uaii, Architee-tiire in England, &.c.) Templet. (See Template.) Templum, Temple, R. {rifxvw, to cut off). AGreek temple was not originally intended forworshippers, but as a shrine for the the earliest times the Greek temples weremade of wood, and the primitive origin ofthem was probably a hollow tree in which tlieimage was placed as in a niche. The earlyGreek temples were dark and gloomy, havingno windows, but lighted through the door, orby lamps. At a very early stage in history,temples of great grandeur and beauty are men-tioned. All temples were built in an oblongor round form, and were mostly adornedwith columns ; they were classified accordinglyas astyle, without any columns ; in antis, with. Fig. 647. Templum in antis. two columns in front, between the aw/i^; pro-style, with four columns in front; or amphi-prostyle, with four columns at each end ;peripteral, with columns at each end and alongthe sides ; or dipteral, with two ranges of columnsall round, one witliin the other, &c. Theywere also described according to the number ofcolumns in tiie porticoes, as tetrastyle, liexastyle,dccastyle, &c.,—this number was never uneven ;or according to the intercolumniation, as pyctto-style, systyle, eustyle, diastyle, or ^Iany of the great temples consisted otthree parts : the pronaos or vestibule ; thecella, properly the naos; and the opistho-doiiios. Tendrils of a vine or other cr
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