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Moulding Book REVISED EDITION OF THE NEW UNIVERSAL MOULDING BOOK CONTAINING LATEST STYLES OF MOULDINGS AND Architectural Designs of Exterior and Interior Finish In great variety, giving full size of Mouldings, and their exact measurement in inches on each Moulding. RAILS, BALUSTERS |AND NEWEL POSTS, ARCHITF^AVRS, Front, Interior and Store Doors, Wood Mantels, Pew Ends, Office Counters, SCROLL AND TURNED BALUSTRADES, - BRACKETS AND DRAPERY, ELEVATIONS OF DOOR AND WINDOW FRAMES. Entered to of according Act Congress, in the year 1891, by RAND, McNALLY & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. CHICAGO : PUBLISHED BY RAND, McNALLY & COMPANY, Printers, Engravers, and Electrotypers. 1891. INDEX. Balusters, ....... og Bay Windows, ..... '. Brackets, ............' 48 to 53 on with Chapter . i Mouldings, Illustrations, * V) v> ^ v {{ Columns and the Orders of with Architecture, Illustrations, . yiii ix x Cornice Drapery, ...... '47 Office or Counters, Bank, ' gO .... - . Front and . Doors, Frame, . t t . 73 to 75 Interior Doors, Finish, ....;. 65 to 68 Fence, ...... 56 Frames, Window, .... 76 to 79 Fronts, Store, ....... 62 Gate > ..'.. 1 !.'! 56 Glossarial -; Index, ... TLi T1 ' Mantels, Wood, '.'.'.'. 61 ..... \ MOULDINGS Astragal, 12 and 28 Band, . 18 to 22 Base, Battens, 28 Bed, . 6,7 Casings, 44 and 41, Ceiling Window Stools, . 38 Crown, ...... to 5 and Drop Siding, Flooring Ship Lap, . ! 46 Eastlake and Queen Anne Casings for Windows and Doors *42 4 Inside Finish, ....... 39' 40 Interior Cornice and Bead, .....' 33* 34 Lattice, Back Band and Transom Bar, O G btops, 10 Panel and Base, | ..... 15 to 17 Pew Back Rail, Wainscoting Cap and Thresholds, 30 P G and Bead Stops, ...... 3 ! Quarter Half Round and Round, Cove, .' . 9 Rabbeted Panel and Base, .... 23 to 27 Return Beads, ..... 8 Section of Window Frames, *oe OUo C! Coves~* and-t OOj feprung Bed, ....... 6 Sunk Panel, ...... 3l Water Table or Drip" Cap Q H Pew Ends, . Pickets, Posts, Newel, ... !."..' 84 to 87 Price List of and Stair . '. Mouldings Work, '. '. '. '. 90, 91, 92 Rail, Outside, Balusters and Posts, Rail, Stair, . Stair Plans and Stair Brackets, Veranda Sawed Balustrade and Rail, Verandas, ....... CHAPTER ON MOULDINGS. with in abundance two to all the are frequently met great ; MOULDING. A general term applied are the and a series to the of the most marked billet, varieties of outline or contour given angles of of grotesque heads placed in a hollow moulding, of the various subordinate parts and features such as with their tongues or beaks lapping over a large whether projections or cavities, buildings, of these ornaments there are bead or torus ; but cornices, bases, door and window jambs capitals, the other kinds are incalcula- of Classi- many varieties, and and heads, etc. The regular mouldings F, or the bly diversified. (Page vii., figs. E, K, L.) cal architecture are, foe fillet, list; astragal, In the the be- or the recta, Early English style, mouldings or bead; the cyma reversa, ogee; cyma are more cut than in the or come lighter, and boldly or cyma; the cavetto, or hollow; owlo, quar- the varieties are not the or the Norman ; very great, ter-round; the scotia, or trochilus; torus, of and in arches, jambs of doors, windows, etc., round; each of these admits of some variety in the are very commonly so arranged that if they form, and there is considerable difference they are circumscribed a line drawn to touch the manner of working them between the Greeks by most of their contour it will be and Romans. They are represented on page v. prominent points found to form a succession of rectangular The mouldings in Classical architecture are fre- e consist recesses, as a, b, c, d, ; they generally quently enriched by being cut into leaves, eggs of alternate rounds and tongues, or other ornaments, and sometimes of and hollows, the the larger members have running patterns in latter very deeply honeysuckle or other foliage carved on them cut, and a few small low relief; the upper moulding of cornices is fillets sometimes occasionally ornamented with a series of project- ; are -., also splays ing lions' heads. there is con- In middle age architecture, the diversities in fused ; the and of the mould- fsiderable inequali- proportions arrangements ' to in the sizes of ings are very great, and it is scarcely possible ty the ones are do more than point out a few of the leading and the round mouldings, and larger distance as to most characteristic varieties. In the Norman very usually placed at such a apart these of between them ; style the mouldings consist almost entirely admit of several smaller one or more nar- rounds and hollows, variously combined, with an large rounds have frequently to a of a few fillets v. fillets on or are brought admixture splays, and (page , fig. row worked them, as at Haddenham, C); the ogee and ovolo are seldom to be found, sharp edge in the middle, recta ever in work G and M, page vii.); and the cyma scarcely ; early Great Haseley, etc., (figs. D, with a deep very few mouldings of any kind are met with, the smaller rounds are often undercut, the round and hollow and it is not till the style is considerably ad- cavity on one side, and that as in- unite with each other with- vanced they become numerous ; they members constantly in their fillet or The ornaments crease number, size is, for the most part, out any parting angle. are not numerous, proportionably reduced. One of the most used on mouldings in this style in the hol- marked peculiarities of Norman architecture is and they are almost invariably placed most characteristic is the constant recurrence of mouldings broken in- lows; the commonest and to lines it has not is known the name of the tooth- zig-zag ; been very clearly that which by four small ascertained at what period this kind of decora- ornament, which usually consists of to form a but it tion was first introduced, but it was certainly not plain leaves united so as pyramid, at the west till some considerable time after the commence- is sometimes worked differently, and ment of the it and the style ; when once adopted, became door of St. Cross Church, Hampshire, more common than any other ornament, and it is chancel-arch of Stone Church, Kent, is composed used in it leaves these ornaments are frequently great profusion ; may be of small bunches of ; several made to produce great variety of effect by chang- commonly placed close together, and in the ing the section of the mouldings and placing the series of them are frequently introduced in different directions the other enrichments zigzags (figs. A and B, page same suit of mouldings ; v. leaves and flowers, or of ; fig. J, page vii.). About the same time that consist chiefly of single the to the zigzag appeared, other ornaments of various running patterns of the foliage peculiar kinds were introduced among the mouldings, and style. CHAPTER ON MOULDINGS. GRECIAN OVOLO. ROMAN OVOLO. Temple at Corinth. Theatre of Marcellus, Rome. CAVETTO. SCOTIA, TROCHILUS, OR CASEMENT. Theatre of Marcellus, Rome. Baths of Diocletian, Rome. CYMA REVERSA OR OGEE. Temple of Antonlus and Faustinas, Rome. CYMA RECTA. Theatre of Marcellus, Rome. QUIRKED OGEE. '* Arch of Constantine, Rome. NORTH HINKSEY, BERKS. 1FFLEY, OXFORDSHIRE. ARCH, CHOIR, PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL. CHAPTER ON MOULDINGS. sometimes The decorated mouldings are more diversified shallow, hollows; these occupied so suits a as to leave but little room for than the early English, though in large large space any rounds and hollows continue for the most part to other mouldings; the hollows and round members often cut, not unite without line of prevail; the hollows are very deeply unfrequently any sepa- the end but the other members are either but in many instances, especially towards ration, parted shallower and or fillets; the most of the style, they become broader; by quirks prevalent moulding is the but which are often so ovolos are not very uncommon, and ogees are ogee, rounds, small either as to be are and it is frequent; splays also are often used, by only beads, very abundant, themselves or with other mouldings; fillets very usual to find two ogees in close contact, with the convex sides next each there is placed upon larger members are abundant, other; and a also an which is especially in the early part of the style, undulating moulding, common round moulding, with a sharp projecting edge in abacuses and drip-stones, peculiar to the per- formed from a the latter of on it, arising from one-half being pendicular style, especially part it; smaller curve than the other, is frequently used; and another, indicative of the same date, which this is characteristic of decorated work, and is is concave in the middle and round at each very common in string-courses; when used hori- extremity, is occasionally used in door jambs, etc. zontally the larger curve is placed uppermost; In perpendicular work, small fillets are not placed there is also another moulding, convex in the upon larger members as in decorated and early middle and concave at each extremity, which, English; splays also are much less frequent than though sometimes found in the perpendicular in the earlier styles, but shallow hollows are character- style, may be considered as generally used instead. The ornaments used in the mould- istic of the decorated. Fillets are very frequently ings are running patterns of foliage and flowers; used to separate other members, but the rounds detached leaves, flowers, and bunches of foliage; and hollows often run together, as in the early heads, animals and figures, usually grotesque; English style (fig. H, page vii.).
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