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The room or rooms used by the priest(s) attached to a chantry.

1.A small area within a larger church,containing an altar and intended primarily for private prayer.2.A room or a building designated for religious purposes within the complex of a school,college,hospital,or other institution.3.A small secondary church in a parish.

A church built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of  those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently. 

The chapel of a royal castle or palace.
 

Same as capital.

An astragal or bead molding,some times enriched with carved foliage.

A place for business meetings of a religious or fraternal organization;occasionally also contains living quarters for members of such a group.

A small capital of a vaulting shaft.

A filter for removing odors,vapors,and dust particles from air,employing activated charcoal as the filter element.

1.The intense effort to complete an academic architectural problem within a specified time.2.The time in which this work is done. 

The quantity of refrigerant in a refrigeration system.
 

Feeding materials into a concrete or mortar mixer,furnace,or other receptacle where they will be further treated or processed.

An enclosed vertical chute with doors through which waste material is dropped down and fed into an incinerator.

A door to an incinerator through which waste is passed into the combustion chamber.

An 18th or early-19th- century town house in Charleston, South Carolina;usually Georgian or Greek Revival style,two stories high,with the first story often well above ground level.Such houses were of two types.The first and more common type,called a single house,was long and narrow, a single room deep,built with its long side perpendicular to the street;on the long side facing a garden was a two tiered colonnaded porch onto which all rooms opened; the entrance was by a flight of stairs leading from the street up to the porch.The second type,called a double house,had a façade facing the street and was two rooms deep,boxlike in shape,and had a portico with a classical two tiered porch in the middle of the façade.
 

A building or chamber for the deposit of the bones of the dead.

In the early Greek theater,a flight of steps from the middle of the stage to the orchestra;used by characters from the underworld.

A single blow impact test utilizing a falling pendulum which breaks a specimen,usually notched,supported at both ends.

A Carthusian monastery.

In Britain one who has been admitted as a member or fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building.

Surveyor A building surveyor who is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

An individual who is a full member of one of the chartered engineering institutions.

In Britain,an institution open to all professionals in the field of building.

A British organization members whose are concerned with services within a building related to the building environment,including:heating,air-conditioning,lighting,acoustical,water supply services,drainage services,electrical supply,gas supply,fire protection,and security protection.

A place for the safe keeping of records and other valuable documents. 

A monastery of the Carthusian monks,esp.in France.
 

1.A continuous recess built into a wall to receive pipes,ducts,etc.;a wall chase.2.A groove cut in a masonry wall to receive a pipe, conduit,etc.3.To decorate metalwork by tooling on the exterior surface.

Joining old masonry work to new by means of a bond having a continuous vertical recess the full height of the wall.

A stub mortise which is larger than the tenon inserted into it;one side of the mortise is sloped,permitting the tenon to be inserted sideways;used where exterior clearance is limited.

A wedge-shaped tool with a handle;used for bossing sheet lead.

In early Russian architecture,a chapel which is a detached structure.

A container for a saint’s relics.

A stony mineral material,occurring with mineral ore;very similar to chert.

1.A castle or imposing country residence of nobility in old France.2.Now,any French country estate.

At the termination of an aqueduct,a reservoir architecturally embellished as a public fountain.

A security interest in a chattel as collateral for the payment of a loan. 

Intermittent transverse marks on a material due to vibration during rolling,extrusion,cutting,or drawing.
 

See poultry house.

A device for hanging pots for cooking;see chimney crane.

One of the two vertical sides of a fireplace opening.

See flue lining.

Same as randle bar.

A small structure,set flush between two exterior brick chimneys located on an end wall of a house;covered by a small narrow sloping roof at the level of the ground floor ceiling,buttressing the chimneys.

An ornament over and around a fireplace framing the mantel or the casing of the chimney breast.

That part of a chimney which is carried above the roof of a building of which it forms a part.

Same as chimney stack. 

Same as chimney cap. 

The narrowest portion of a chimney flue,between the “gathering” (or upward contraction above the fireplace) and the flue proper;often where the damper is located.
 

Same as fireplace tile;see alsoDutch tile.
 

That part of a chimney that extends above the roof or crowns the chimney stack.