Glossary · M
Mount
Also called mounts, garden mount
An artificial mound in a garden, often spiralled by a path and topped by an arbour or summer house, from which the garden and the country beyond could be seen; common in Tudor and Stuart England.
Rules that use the word
Tiers of kokoshniki. Mount from the walls to the drum in stepped tiers of decorative gables with pointed ogee heads, the kokoshniki, each tier set back and narrower than the one below, so that the body of the church rises into its domes in a pyramid of arches.
The temple as Mount Meru. Build the state temple as a stepped mountain with five towers in a quincunx (one at the centre and four at the corners), representing the five peaks of Mount Meru, surrounded by walls and a moat for the mountains and ocean that ring the world.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters South and Southeast Asia, Gardens and Landscape.
A feature of Khmer architecture.
Nearby in the glossary
Monopteros · Moon gate · Mortise and tenon · Moulding · Mount Meru · Mullion · Muqarnas · Mutule