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The portico of the Croome Court in Croome D'Abitot (England) Temple diagram with location of the pronaos highlighted. A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.
A rain porch is a type of porch with the roof and columns extended past the deck and reaching the ground. The roof may extend several feet past the porch creating a covered patio. A rain porch, also referred to as a Carolina porch, is usually found in the Southeastern United States. [6]
1. A lateral part or projection of a building or structure such as a wing wall. 2. A subordinate part of a building possibly not connected to the main building. [88] 3. The sides of a stage (theatre). Widow's walk A railed rooftop platform often having an inner cupola/turret frequently found on 19th-century North American coastal houses.
The highly decorated two-storey porch of St Mary's, Yatton, England [1] [2] A church porch is a room-like structure at a church's main entrance. [3] A porch protects from the weather to some extent. Some porches have an outer door, others a simple gate, and in some cases the outer opening is not closed in any way.
The porch of columns that surrounds the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., (in style a peripteral classical temple) can be termed a colonnade. [4] As well as the traditional use in buildings and monuments, colonnades are used in sports stadiums such as the Harvard Stadium in Boston , where the entire horseshoe-shaped stadium is topped by a ...
An ornate 19th-century porte-cochère, at Waddesdon Manor A modern example at a hospital. A porte-cochère (/ ˌ p ɔːr t k oʊ ˈ ʃ ɛ r /; French: [pɔʁt.kɔ.ʃɛʁ]; lit. ' coach gateway '; [1] pl. porte-cochères or portes-cochères) [2] is a doorway to a building or courtyard, "often very grand," through which vehicles can enter from the street [3] or a covered porch-like structure at ...
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Greek temples, normally rectangular in plan, generally had a pediment at each end, but Roman temples, and subsequent revivals, often had only one, in both cases across the whole width of the main front or facade. The rear of the typical Roman temple was a blank wall, usually without columns, but often a full pediment above.