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In architecture a nail-headed moulding is an ornament consisting of a series of low four-sided pyramids resembling the heads of large nails. It is the same as the simplest form of dogtooth.
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In architecture a narthex is the portico in front of ancient churches; sometimes, the atrium or outer court surrounded by ambulatories. The term is generally used for any vestibule, lobby, or outer porch, leading to the nave of a church.
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In architecture, a nave is the central part of a church, so called from a supposed resemblance to a ship. It is the part of the church extending from the transepts to the principal entrances, or, if there are no transepts, from the choir to the principal entrance, but not including the aisles.
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In architecture a neckmould is a small convex moulding surrounding a column at the junction of the shaft and capital.
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In architecture a needle beam is the horizontal cross timber which goes through the wall or a pier, and upon which the weight of the wall rests, when a building is shored up to allow of alterations in the lower part.
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In architecture a newel is the upright post about which the steps of a circular staircase wind; hence, in stairs having straight flights, the principal post at the foot of a staircase, or the secondary ones at the landings.
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Newgate was a former jail in the city of London. It was built during the reign of Henry I, and in 1241 rebuilt with the sum of 20,000 marks extracted from the wealthy Jews of London. The original building was destroyed in the great fire in 1666, but the prison was rebuilt in 1770. The interior was also ruined by fire in the Lord Gordon riots in 1780, when 300 prisoners were let loose on the populace - a scene described by Charles Dickens in Barnaby Rudge. Many noted prisoners were confined within the walls of Newgate - among them George Wither, Daniel Defoe, Jack Sheppard, Titus Oates and William Penn. After 1877 Newgate ceased to be used as a place of incarceration and after 1868 executions took place inside its walls until it was finally demolished in 1904 to make room for the Middlesex sessions-house.
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In decorating, nibs are small particles of foreign matter embedded in a paint film and projecting above the surface so as to give it a rough feel and mar the appearance.
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In architecture, a niche is a recess or hollow in a wall used to house an ornament or statue.
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Nigged is a masonry term applied to hammer-dressed building stone.
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Nogging is rough brick masonry used to fill in the interstices of a wooden frame, in building.
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A norma is a mason's or a carpenter's square or rule.
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The Norman style (also known as the English Romanesque) is a style of Romanesque architecture which arose in the tenth century but is typical of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and is characterized by great massiveness, simplicity, and strength, with the use of the semicircular arches, heavy round columns, and a great variety of ornaments, among which the zigzag and spiral or cable-formed ornaments were prominent.
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In architecture a nosing is that part of the treadboard of a stair which projects over the riser; hence the term is applied to any like projection, as for example the projecting edge of a moulding.
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