bolection

Bolection - a moulding which is raised, projecting proud of the face frame.

It is a chequer brick building of three bays and its doorway has bolection moulding.

Inside, a fireplace panel has arched bolection molding (molding that projects outward).

The fireplace bolection is carved African verdite.

The brick fireplaces have bolection molded surrounds and cyma moldings supporting the mantelpiece.

The drawing room has walnut panelling and bolection molding with carved birds, flowers and swags around the fireplace.

Look at that fine old door, for instance, with its beveled panels and ornamented bolection, and its Ionic pilasters and carved lintel.

FLUTED pilasters, carved rosettes, bolection molding and other 18th-century architectural details are the 20th-century specialties of a millwork shop in South Windsor.

Inside, the Richards lined many of the rooms with wainscots and the big bolection moulded panels of the time, mostly in the fashionable white wood, save for an oak room on the first floor.

The aisle is small and rectangular in plan, gabled, with finely squared ashlar masonry, bolection moulding at the wallhead, and cavetto moulded skewputts and apex stones.

A bolection, sometimes called balection, bilection or similar, is a moulding which projects beyond the face of a panel or frame, usually found in panelling, doors and fireplaces, especially when the meeting surfaces are at different levels.

Here in the great saloon, light and airy with its tall mullioned windows facing north and south, its smart bolection moulding around the panelling and its groaning tables of food, the men would congregate and feast after a long morning's deer hunting in the park.

In England in the 17th century the door panels were raised with bolection or projecting moldings, sometimes richly carved, round them; in the 18th century the moldings worked on the stiles and rails were carved with the egg and tongue ornament.

He used the best available craftsmen to make beautiful rusticated quoin stones, decorated iron rainwater heads, bolection moulded panelling and door surrounds with broken pediments over, a plaster ceiling on the landing with swags and scrolled foliage, and a grand segmental pediment over the front door.

Here there was more change than the outside indicated, and Ward saw with regret that fully half of the fine scroll-and-urn overmantels and shell-carved cupboard linings were gone, whilst most of the fine wainscotting and bolection moulding was marked, hacked, and gouged, or covered up altogether with cheap wall-paper.