Comments on: Station Crenellation http://www.paulseward.com/blog/20080122/station-crenellation/ Photos of Phones and Phonographs (occasionally) Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:26:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul http://www.paulseward.com/blog/20080122/station-crenellation/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Paul Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:35:24 +0000 http://www.paulseward.com/blog/20080122/station-crenellation/#comment-19 The OED website would seem to agree (or at least, not refute outright!): <snip> 2. Collective name for the various parts (lintel, jambs, and their mouldings) that surround a doorway or window. Also attrib. 1663 GERBIER Counsel 76 Architrave doore-cases. 1725 POPE Odyss. XXI. 46 Folding gates..With pomp of various architrave o'erlay'd. 1847 BARHAM Ingol. Leg. (1877) 85 With a shell-pattern'd architrave over the door. 3. Ornamental moulding round the exterior of an arch. Also attrib. 1849 FREEMAN Archit. 152 The arches too are channeled with architrave mouldings. </snip> Although this is neither round a door nor an arch. It runs around the roofline of the shelter on the station. The OED website would seem to agree (or at least, not refute outright!):

2. Collective name for the various parts (lintel, jambs, and their mouldings) that surround a doorway or window. Also attrib.
1663 GERBIER Counsel 76 Architrave doore-cases. 1725 POPE Odyss. XXI. 46 Folding gates..With pomp of various architrave o’erlay’d. 1847 BARHAM Ingol. Leg. (1877) 85 With a shell-pattern’d architrave over the door.

3. Ornamental moulding round the exterior of an arch. Also attrib.
1849 FREEMAN Archit. 152 The arches too are channeled with architrave mouldings.

Although this is neither round a door nor an arch. It runs around the roofline of the shelter on the station.

]]> By: Mikey http://www.paulseward.com/blog/20080122/station-crenellation/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Mikey Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:29:25 +0000 http://www.paulseward.com/blog/20080122/station-crenellation/#comment-18 I think it's an architrave I think it’s an architrave

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