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Circles, 908-928.

Circles of stone common in Wales and the
Western Isles, in Iceland, Norway, Swe-
den, and various parts of Germany,
Circles of stones used by the Israelites, 15.
One set up by Joshua, ib. Remains of,
in counties of Derby, Devon, Dorset,
Somerset, and Westmoreland, 16.

Circus Maximus at Rome, dimensions of,
240.

Circus of the Greeks and Romans, 240.
Clamps of bricks, 1816.

Clare Hall Chapel, Cambridge, designed
by Sir James Burrough, 490.

Clarke, Dr., an able amateur architect,

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Genoa, 2902. At Paris, 2903. At
Oxford and Cambridge, 2904. Queen's
College, Oxford, good example as to dis-
position, ib. Christchurch, Oxford,
2906. Trinity College, Cambridge,
2907. King's College, Cambridge, ib.
Corpus Christi, Cambridge, a bad modern
example, ib.

Cologne, cathedral of, described, and plan
and elevation thereof, 306. Contributions
of late years to the fabric, 307. Average
yearly expenditure on, 308.

Cologne, John and Simon of, early German
architects, 365.

Colonna, author of the Poliphili Hypnero-
tomachia, 326.

Column in Place Vendome at Paris, $63.
Columns, Chinese, mode of forming, 10.
Columns, grouping of, 2614.
Columns, heights and diameters of ancient

Roman, 2547. Diminution of, according
to heights, 2548. Height and diminution
of, 2543, et seq. Vignola's method of
diminishing, 2545. Blondel's method,
2546. Diminution in ancient examples,
2547.

Columns in apartments, how arranged,

2849-2851.

Columns, mode of gluing up, in joinery,

2201. Origin of, 135.

Columns should not penetrate each other,

2681.

Columns, stone, mode of working, 1925.
Comari palace at Venice, 351.
Combe Abbey, by Winde, 465.
Combination of parts of a building, 2825,
et seq.
Horizontal and vertical, 2838.
Combination of parts in leading forms,
2855. Examples of, 2856. Method of
abbreviation in composition, 2857. De-
sign proceeded with, 2858. Examples,
2859, 2860.

Common joists and their scantlings, 2014,

2015.

Common rafters, 2035.

Complement of an arc, 1037.

Compasses, bricklayer's 1890.

Compluvium of a Roman house, 247. 253.

Composite order, table of examples, 264.
General proportions of, 265.

Composite order, 2591, et seq. Vignola's
profile of, 2592. Table of parts of, ib.
Parts to a larger scale, 2593. Mode of
profiling capital of, 2594. Profile of, by
Vitruvius, 2595. By Palladio, 2596.
By Serlio, 2597. By Scamozzi, 2598.
Arrangements of modilions, 2614.
Composition enrichments, 2252.
Composition, general principles of, 2825,
et seq.
Ornament a non-essential, 2826.
Façades should depend on internal dis-
tribution, 2827. What compositions
please, 2828. Method of the Gothic
architects as to windows, 2829. Talent
of an architect how to be judged of,
2829, 2830. Drawings necessary in,

2831, et seq.

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Cornice crowning buildings, 2724, et seq.
Proportion it should bear to the total
height of building, 2725. That of Far-
nese palace, ib. Of the Spanocchi palace,
at Siena, ib. Of the Picolomini palace
at Siena, ib. Of the Pojana palace, by
Palladio, ib. Of the Strozzi palace at
Florence, ib. Of the Pandolfini palace
at Florence, ib. Of the Villa Monteccio,
by Palladio, ib. Of the Villa Caldogno,
by Palladio, ib. Of another villa for
same family, ib. Of the Farnese palace.
Of the Gondi family at Florence,
Entablature by Vignola, 2726.
Block cornices, 2727, 2728.

ib.

ib.

Cornices, in plastering, 2250.

Cornices of the Florentine palaces, 327.

329.

Cornices of rooms, proportions of, 2819.
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 2904.
Cortona, walls of, 179.

Co-secant of an arc, 1044.
Co-sine of an arc, 1042.
Co-tangent of an arc, 1043.
Cottage orné, 3001.

Cottages, 3005, et seq. Loudon's observ-
ations on, 3007.
Counterforts, 1592.
Countersinks, 2108.
Countess slates, 1806.
Coupled columns, 267.

Course of brickwork, what, 1894.

Court of the Lions in the Alhambra de-
scribed, 127.

Courts of law, 2888, et seq.
trived in this country, ib.
for, 2891.

Very ill con-
Requisites
Entrances and exits, 2892.

Provinces, 2893.

Coved vaulting, 1464-1477.

Covent Garden, square of, by Jones, 462.
Covent Garden Theatre, 2958-2967.
Covering boards of domes, groins, &c.,
2068-2078.

Covering of buildings, comparative weights
of different materials, 1796.

Covert, Sir Walter, a house in Sussex de-
signed for, by Thorpe, 440.

Coves of ceilings, height of, 2816.
Cowdray, Sussex, mansion, 426.
Crate of glass, 1872.

Crennels of a castle, what, 394.
Cromlechs described, 23.

Malabar coast, ib.

Found on the

Crow iron, bricklayer's, 1890.
Crown glass, 1869.
Crown tiles, 1835.

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Dado, value of labour of, 2368.

Dais in a castle, what, 394.
Damascus houses, how built, 131.
Dance, George, architect, temp. George
III., 521.

Darby, Mr., a London house for, designed
by Thorpe, 440.

David I. of Scotland, his zeal in erecting
religious buildings, 392.

Day, length of, longest in different coun-
tries of Europe, 1030.

Day work, materials and labour, how
charged in, 2322-2329.

Deal, three-quarter or slit, value of, 2368.
Deal, inch and quarter, value of labour on,
2368.

Deal, inch and half, value of labour on,
2368.

Deal, two inch, value of labour on, 2368.
Deal, two and half inch, value of labour on,
2368.

Deal, three-inch, value of labour on, 2368.
Deals and battens, memoranda relating to,
2362.

Deals, how to reduce, 2363.

Deals, table of values of, 2364. Explana-
tion of, 2365.

De Brosse, Jacques, architect of the
Luxembourg in Paris, 358.

De Campo Aguero, a Spanish architect, 367.
Decimal fractions, infinite, 783-796.
Decimals, 861-867.

Decorated Gothic, or ornamented English,
410.

Decoration, 2513-2522.

Arises from de-

sire of variety, 2515. Analogy in, 2517,
2518. Allegory in, 2520. Examples
of, 2521, 2522.

De Cotte, Robert, employed in Germany,

366.

D'Emere, Garcia, celebrated architect of
Spain, 370.

D'Escobado, Giovanni, Alonso, and Fra.
Giovanni, early Spanish architects, 367.
De Foix, Luigi, a Spanish architect, 371.
De Gumiel, Pietro, an early Spanish archi-
tect, 367.

D'Herrera, Giovanni, a Spanish architect of
great fame, 371.

De Uria, Pietro, a Portuguese architect,
367.

Delorme, one of the early French archi-
tects, 357, 358.

Delorme, Philibert, translated into English,

438.

Delorme's mode of framing domes, 2052.

Delphi, temple of, mentioned by Homer,
136.

Denbigh Castle, 398.

Denmark, buildings in, erected by Inigo
Jones, 456.

Denny bole slates, 1808.
Dentels, centres of, 2612.
Derby plasterer's described, 2242.
Descriptive geometry, explanation of,
1110-1115. Division of, 1115. First
class of objects or solids with plane sur-
faces, 1116-1121. Second class or
solids, terminated by plane or curved
surfaces, 1122-1124. Third class or
solids, whose surfaces have a double cur-
vature, 1125-1129. Projection of right
lines, 1130-1133. Projection of sur-
faces, 1134-1136. Projection of curved
lines, 1137-1141. Projection of solids,
1142-1148. Developement of solids
whose surfaces are plane, 1149, 1150.
Developement of regular polyhedrons,
1151–1155. Developement of pyra-
mids and prisms, 1156-1158. Deve-
lopement of an oblique pyramid, 1159—
1164. Developement of right and oblique
prisms, 1165-1169. Developement of
right and oblique cylinders, 1170-1174.
Developement of right and oblique cones,
1175-1183. Developement of bodies or
solids, whose surfaces have a double cur-
vature, 1184-1190. Angles of planes or
surfaces by which solids are bounded,
1191-1211.

Design, architectural. See "Architectural
Design."

Design, method in proceeding to make one,

2833.

Diagannatha, temple of, at Ellora, 56.
Diamond, glazier's, 2226.

Diastyle intercolumniation, 2605. 2609.

2611.

Die of a pedestal, 2603.

Dilapidations, mode of determining, &c.,
Appendix, p. 855, 856.

Diminution of columns, 2543, et seq. Vig-

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Division of simple quantities, 534-539.
Divisor, greatest common, 752, 753.
Djenonasla, temple of, at Ellora, 56.
Dog-legged staircase described, and mode
of forming, 2182.

Domes, circular and polygonal, to deter-
mine ribs of, 2064. To cover with
boards, 2070-2073.

Domes, construction of, in timber, 2089.
Domes, how to regulate caissons in, 2837.
Domes, timber, mode of framing, by De-
lorme, 2052.

Dome vaulting, in masonry, 1956, et seq.
1995-2002. Pendentives formed in,

1999.

Domestic architecture of the Romans, 242
-255.

Domestic architecture of the Tudor period,
423, et seq.
Division into three periods,

425.

Domma, temple of, at Ellora, 56.
Doncaster, parochial church of, 421.
Door chains and barrels, 2263.
Doors, profiles of, 2729, et seq. Considered
in respect of masses and voids, 2730.
Their proper dimensions, 2731. Their
proper places and numbers, 2732. Their
decorations, 2733. Gates and piers, 2734.
Of St. Peter's, Baptistery at Florence,
and San Giovanni Laterano, 2735. Ma-
nufacture of, 2736. Examples of door-
ways, 2737, 2738, 2739. At the Can-
cellaria, 2739. By Michel Angelo, 2740.
By Vignola, at the Farnese, 2741. By
Cigoli, 2742. By Inigo Jones, 2743.
By Serlio, 2744.

Doors, square and flat panel on both sides,

2133.

Doors, quirked ovolo fillet and flat with
square back, 2134.

Doors, quirked ovolo bead, and flat panel
with square back, 2135.

Doors, quirked ovolo bead, fillet, and flat
panel with square back, 2136.
Doors, quirked ogee, quirked bead, and flat
panel with square back, 2137.
Doors, quirked ogee, cocked bead, and flat
panel with square back, 2138.
Doors, cove, cocked bead, flat panel, and
square back, 2139.

Doors, quirked ovolo, bead, fillet, and raised
panel on front and square back, 2140.
Doors, quirked ovolo, bead, and raised

panel with ovolo on the raised panel and
square back, 2141.

Doors, quirked ogee, raised panel with

ovolo, and fillet on the raising, and as-
tragal on the flat of panel in front, and
square back, 2142.

Doors, quirked ovolo, bead, fillet, and flat
panel on both sides, 2143.

Doors, bead and flush front and quirked
ogee, raised panel with ovolo on the
rising, grooved on flat panel on back,
2144.

Doors, value of labour of, 2365—2367.
Dorbay, a French architect engaged on
Tuileries, 357.

Doric arcade, 2623. With pedestal, 2629.
Doric, Grecian, first used in Paris by An-
toine, 360.

Doric, Grecian, relative antiquity of exam-
ples determined from intervals between
the columns, &c., 140. Dorus, imagined
inventor of, 140-142. Table of exam-
ples of, 142.

Doric, Greek, used in Germany by Lang-
hans, 366.

Doric order, among the Romans, 258. Of
the theatre of Marcellus, ib. In the baths
of Dioclesian, ib. Of the Italian archi-
tects, ib.

Doric order, intercolumniations of, 2605.
Doric order, table of members composing
it, 2565. Vitruvius's profile of, 2566.
Palladio's profile of, 2567. Serlio's pro-
file of, 2568. Scammozzi's profile of,
2569. Grecian in the Parthenon, 2570.
Table of its parts, ib. Principal build-
ings of Grecian Doric, 2572.
Doric order, 2560. Vignola's commended
by Daviler, 2561. Parts of the mutular
Doric on larger scale, 2562. Table of
heights and projections, ib. Difficulties

in arranging entablature, 2563. How
employed by the ancients, 2564. Den-
ticular Doric, 2565. Parts of, on larger
scale, ib. Table of heights and projec-
tions, ib.

Doric temple at Corinth, early specimens,

146.

Doric temples, general proportions of place
examined, 152.

Dorrell, Sir Thomas, house for, designed
by Thorpe, 440.

Double bead, or double bead and quirk,
2128.

Double flooring, 2013-2019.
Double-framed flooring, 2013-2019.
Doubles, slates, 1809.

Dover Castle, Kent, 391. 393, 594.
Dowelled floors, 2171-2178.
Dowels, 2173.

Dragon beam, what, 2009.

Drainage of foundations, 1887, 1888.
Drawer handles, 2263.

Drawing in general, 2381.—

landscapes, 2404.

Drawing knife, 2114.

-As applied to

Drawing, methods of teaching, 2383, et seq.
Method of Dupuis, 2385. Ancient
method, 2387, et seq.

Drawings necessary in composition, 2831,

et seq. Consist of plan, section, and ele-
vation, 2832. In making a design, to
proceed on, 2833. Ought not to be co-
loured nor highly finished in shadow,
2834. Of caissons in vaulting, 2835-
2837. Of horizontal and vertical com-

binations, 2839, et seq. By interaxal
divisions, 2842. Prevention of false bear-
ings, 2843.

Dressing and flatting tool, plumber's, 2212.
Drips, in plumbery, 2213.
Droving, in masonry, 1914.

Druidical and Celtic architecture intro-
duced into Britain by the Canaanites of
Tyre and Sidon, 14.

Druids of the British Isles, a colony of the
first race of people, 11.

Drury Lane Theatre, 2958. Old Drury
Lane, 2967.

Drury Lane Theatre, old, roof of, 2048.
Drybergh Abbey, 431.

Drying oil, what, and how made, 2274.
Du Cerceau, one of the early French archi-
tects engaged on Tuileries, 357.

Duchess slates, 1805.

Dungeon of a castle, what, 394.

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77.

Edgar the Peaceable, his care of the Anglo-
Saxon buildings, 386.
Edystone Lighthouse, 2930.
Egypt, architecture of, 9.

Egyptian architecture considered in respect

of style, taste, and character, 76, et seq.,
84, et seq. Temples and tombs, the prin-
cipal work in it, 67. Monotonous, 88.
Egyptian architecture, its analysis and de-
velopement, 70, et seq.

Egyptian architecture, physical causes which
affect it, 63, et seq. No circular temple
in, 69.

Egyptian architecture, principal edifices
and their situations, and map of the Nile,

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Eosander, a German architect, 365.

Ephebeum of the Greek gymnasium, 175.

Ephebeum of the Roman baths, 235.

Episcenium of the Greek theatre, 172.
Equations simple, resolution of, 816–824.
Resolution of two or more of the first
degree, 825-832. Of pure quadratic
equations, 833-841. Of mixed, of the
second degree, 842-848. Of complete
equations of the third degree, 849-860.
Equilibrium necessary for fitness, 2500.
Erectheus, Ionic temple of, at Athens, 155.
Erwin of Steinbach, architect of cathedral
at Strasburg, 305.

Escurial, designs for, by Giovanni Battista
of Toledo, 370, 371.

Escurial in Spain, 370, 371.

erection, ib. Described, ib.

Cause of its

Esher, in Surrey, palace at, 426.
Esneh, ruins at, 71.

Estimating, 2295, et seq.

Eton College Chapel, 421.

Etruscan architecture, probably a branch of
the Cyclopean, 178.
Marked by great

solidity of construction, 179.

Eudes de Montreuil, architect, 310.
Eustyle intercolumniation, 2605-2611.
Examples of the Florid or Tudor style,
432.

Excavator's work in specifications, 2281.
Exchanges, 2937, et seq. Definition of,
2937. How sometimes designed, 2938.
That of Amsterdam, 2939. Sir Christo-

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