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Glossary

Nailhead
Ornament in the Early English period of Gothic, consisting of small pyramids regularly repeated.
Naos
The space within a classical temple. Also called a cella.
Narthex
Enclosed vestibule or covered porch at the main entrance to a church.
Nave
The body of a church west of the crossing or chancel, often flanked by aisles.
Needle spire
A thin spire rising from the centre of a tower roof, well inside the parapet.
Neo-Baroque
Nottingham
The revival of the Baroque style, especially in early 20th-century Britain; also termed Edwardian Baroque. It tended to look back to English prototypes of the late 17th and early 18th centuries rather than to the more expansive models of the Continent, where Baroque architecture originated.
Neo-Byzantine
London
The revival in the late 19th and early 20th centuries of the Byzantine style associated with Eastern or Orthodox Christianity, which originated at Byzantium (Constantinople) in the 5th century. Characterized by round arches, vaults and domes, ornament of emblematic and symbolic significance, and the use of mosaic.
Neo-Classicism
Harvey Lonsdale Elmes,
1841-56
A tendency within classical architecture, at its peak in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, which aimed at a purer imitation of the buildings of the Greeks and Romans, or at a more logical and rigorous use of the elements of the classical style.
Neo-Georgian
City of London
The revival of the British and Irish architecture of the 18th and early 19th centuries. It often depends for its effects on sash windows, symmetry, and carefully calculated proportions rather than on displays of columns and grand formal features. At its peak in the 1920s, it can be traced back to the late 19th century and is still current as a style mostly for private houses.
Neo-Renaissance
By J.E. Gregan, 1848
The classical manner of the 15th to the 17th centuries, especially that of Italy, as revived in the 19th century and later.