Dais: Raised area where the lord's chair is positioned

Daub: Mud and clay covering as in wattle and daub

Day Stairs: Stairs usually leading from the cloister to the dorter (sleeping hall).

Decorated: The name used to denote the architecture style between 1275 and 1350 (+/- 25 years) (More...)

Diaper: Pattern of diamonds or squares

Dog-Tooth Moulding: An ornimental moulding used in the 13th Century in English Cathedrals, conisting of a series of pyramidal projections, each having for leaves

Donjon: Inner stronghold or keep of the castle

Dormer window: Window with a gable that projects from a sloping roof

Dovecote: Building where pigeons and doves were raised.

Drawbridge: The wooden bridge of a gateway that can be raised or lowered for defence

Dressings: The stones used for corners or angles and are worked to a smooth finish

Dripstone: A projecting moulding over doors, windows etc. used to throw off the rain

Dungeon: The prison

Early English: The term used to denote the style of architecture between 1190 and 1275 (More...)

Eaves: The underneath part of a sloping roof that overhangs a wall

Effigy: A stone, wood, marble etc. carved likeness of a person.

Embattled: Battlements with crenelations (indentations).

Embrasure: A small opening in battlements used as lookout posts

Encaustic Tiles: Tiles used in medieval cathedrals having the patterns burnt into them

Enciente: An enclosure; the fortified area of a castle

Engaged Shaft or Column: A shaft or column partly set into another shaft or column or wall

Extrados: The curved upper or outer surface of an arch

Facade: The face or principal front of a building

Fan-Vault: A conchoidal type of vault in which length and curvature of all the ribs are the same

Feretory: The shrines containing the sacred relics of saints

Finial: Leaf decoration on top of a gable or bench-end

Floriated: Decorated with flowers shaped ornaments. Tracery term

Flying Buttress: A free-standing buttress linked to the building by part of a arch to provide strength against the lateral forces

Foliated: Carving with leaves

Forebuilding: A small defendable building on the entrance of a larger building

Fosse: A trench, ditch or moat possibly defensive

Foundations: Underground stone base supporting the building above

Frater: Large common dining room in an abbey. Strict rules of procedure and silence were observed while readings were given.