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Stringcourse
Stringcourse String"course` (-k[=o]rs`), n. (Arch.)
A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the
design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way
distinguished from the rest of the work.
Meaning of Stringcourse from wikipedia
- A belt course, also
called a
string course or sill course, is a
continuous row or
layer of
stones or
brick set in a wall. Set in line with
window sills...
- moulding, or the
wallspace bounded by
adjacent arches in an
arcade and the
stringcourse or
moulding above them, or the
space between the
central medallion of...
-
picture windows, and is
topped by a
stone stringcourse.
There are balustrade-like
decorations above the
stringcourse and
below the third-floor windows. On...
- The
first floor windows have
stone sills joined by a
stringcourse of stone, and a
second stringcourse connects the
windows just
below the
stone lintels....
- tops,
while those on the
second level are rectangular. A
terra cotta stringcourse separates the
first and
second levels. The
building served as the first...
- band
between the
first and
second stories that
serves as a
modified stringcourse, and
symmetrically arranged and
unadorned upper-story windows. In 1984...
- Constantinople's
Myrelaion Church (c. 920),
there are two
oculi above the
stringcourse on both
lateral facades.
Early examples of the
oculus in Renaissance...
- A
course is a
layer of the same unit
running horizontally in a wall. It can also be
defined as a
continuous row of any
masonry unit such as bricks, concrete...
-
building features a
simplified Beaux Arts
Vernacular style,
contains a
stringcourse separating the
first and
second stories,
upper story windows grouped...
- The
second floor has a graffito-painted
frieze between the
stringcourse and the
stringcourse, with five
windows similar to
those on the
first floor. The...
