Architectural terms - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. Post and lintel
2. A window in the shape of a pointed arch.
   Lancet window
3. Ornamental stone work, typically in the upper part of a Gothic window.
   Tracery
4. The area enclosed by a pediment, whether triangular or semicircular. Usually containing some relief sculpture.
   Tympanum
5. A pyramidal structure at the top of a building, usually a church
   Spire
6. A horizontal banding, usually found in a Greek temple, comprising an architrave and a frieze.
   Entabulature
7. A small, pointed ornament at the top of a building (usually found in Gothic architecture)
   Finial
8. A three-leaf design, usually found in Gothic tracery.
   Trefoil
9. Fluting
10. A rounded roof or ceiling, developed by the Romans.
    Dome
11. Leaves decorating the capital of a Corinthian Column.
    Acanthus
12. The triangular section of wall between two sections of roof
    Gable
13. Volute
14. The middle of the three main divisions of an entablature (section resting on the capital). Above the architrave and below the capital.
    Frieze
15. A shallow recess in a wall, usually containing a sculpture
    Niche
16. Classical order characterised by the use of volutes (scrolls).
    Ionic
17. A rounded arch.
    Roman arch
18. A triangular section of roof (often seen in classical architecture).
    Pediment
19. a structure of stone or brick built against a wall to strengthen or support it.
    Buttress
20. A covered porch, usually found in Classical architecture.
    Portico
21. An arch with a pointed crown, usually found in Gothic architecture.
    Pointed arch
22. Classical order of architecture characterized by a sturdy fluted column and no base.
    Doric
23. The top of the column.
    Capital
24. Flying buttress
25. A sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background.
    Relief sculpture
26. The most ornate Greek order, distinguished by a capital with volutes, and acanthus leaves.
    Corinthian
27. Quatrefoil
28. A circular window, especially found in Gothic cathedrals, where the windows are divided into segments by stone mullions and tracery.
    Rose window
29. A series of semi-circular mouldings above a doorway.
    Archivolt