In architecture, an impost or impost block is a projecting block resting on top of a column or embedded in a wall, serving as the base for the springer...

racing Impost (architecture): a block or capital on which an arch rests This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Impost. If an...

(Bucharest, Romania) Impost (architecture) Pulvino Arnold, 2005, pp.204ff Mumcuoglu, Madeleine; Garfinkel, Yosef (2021). "Royal Architecture in the Iron Age...

references on Islamic architecture often refer to this architectural tradition in terms such as architecture of the Islamic West or architecture of the Western...

of a vault that springs from the column, in which case it is called an impost block. In śilpaśāstra, the ancient Indian science of sculpture, the abacus...

it is where the arch support terminates at the respond. It rests on the impost or pier of the arch, that is, the topmost part of the abutment, from which...

headroom and usually also by enabling addition of windows. Dosseret, or impost block A cubical block of stone above the capitals in a Byzantine church...

A pulvino (or impost block) is an architectural structural element (dosseret) having the shape of an inverted pyramid cushion, which is placed between...

higher than the impost level. Both semicircular and pointed arches can be stilted. As a result, the stilted arch has its center above the impost. In Byzantine...

longitudinal arches are pointed with both arcs having their centres on the impost line. This allows the latter to correspond more closely to the curvatures...

image illustrates, there are two alfiz variants: Alfiz starting from the impost. Alfiz starting from the floor. The space between the arch and the alfiz...

concrete, or brick, left bare or clad in an architectural covering, or veneer. Used to support an arch, an impost, or pier, is the topmost member of a column...

above, transferring it from stone to stone to the springer's bottom face (impost), which is horizontal and passes the thrust on to the buttresses, piers...

mainly with scenes from the Old Testament. The decorative elements on the imposts are similar to those found on the external wall of the apse of the hermitage...

(central nave and two side aisles), separated by three semicircular arches on impost capitals and square columns. There is a transept or transversal aisle located...

soffit is the curved inner surface of the arch or vault located above the impost, as opposed to the outer surface called the arch or vault crest. Jamb statue...

with the cathedral of Antwerp: instead of round columns with a capital impost, bundled pillars profiled in the columns continue without interruption through...

used to resist the lateral forces of a vault. The impost or abacus of a column in classical architecture may also serve as an abutment to an arch. The word...

surface of the arch) Impost is block at the base of the arch (the voussoir immediately above the impost is a springer). The tops of imposts define the springing...

pilasters and topped by a small entablature. The entablatures serve as imposts supporting the semicircular arch that tops the central light. In the library...

(house) Impost Inca architecture Indented corners Indian rock-cut architecture Indian vernacular architecture Indies Empire style Indigenous architecture Indo-Corinthian...

grey marble fragment document the use of multifoil arches with spiral-form impost decoration. The use of this motif at the Qal'at subsequently spread during...

Unicorn, symbolizing Purity and Incarnation: 142–44  Impost block: Fish, symbolizing Christ: 142–44  Impost block: Sparrows, symbolizing the Lowly People: 142–44 ...

the impost block atop it, a complete column drum and some parts of a second, and the statue's pedestal, which was originally separated from the impost by...

than half a circle) of Visigothic architecture. The two arches perpendicular to the axis of the nave spring from impost blocks supported on columns attached...

grey marble fragment document the use of multifoil arches with spiral-form impost decoration. The use of this motif at the Qal’at subsequently spread during...

ideas and architecture of this Romanesque style which entered the peninsula with large French Romanesque influences. The decoration of its imposts and Romanesque...

with dosserets (or impost blocks) was novel. So too, the circular arches and the segmented spherical domes behind them. The architectural elements were also...

they attribute to Him.: 414  More inscriptions are carved into the stone imposts on either side of the mihrab niche's arch, above the small engaged columns...

a horizontal cornice transects a round-headed arch at the level of the imposts, where the arch springs. If the top of the lunette itself is bordered by...