Glossary · S
Scroll
Also called façade volute, console
On a façade, a large S- or C-shaped volute that links two storeys of different width, as on Santa Maria Novella and Il Gesù; also used as a bracket (console).
See also: Volute
Rules that use the word
The two-storey church front. Front a basilican church with two storeys of the order: the lower as wide as nave and chapels, the upper as wide as the nave alone, joined by scrolls and crowned by a pediment.
The alcove fixes the order of the room. Place the tokonoma, a shallow raised alcove for a hanging scroll and flowers, in the wall opposite or beside the entrance, with staggered shelves beside it; the place of honour is the seat in front of it.
Scrolls to join nave and aisles. Where a church has a tall nave and low aisles, give the front a lower storey as wide as the whole church and an upper storey as wide as the nave, and join the two with great scrolls.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters What Is Architecture?, How to Use This Book, The Ionic Order, The Corinthian Order, The Islamic World, China, Japan and Korea, Renaissance and Baroque, Gardens and Landscape.
A feature of Mannerism, French formal garden, Rococo architecture.
Nearby in the glossary
Sash window · Scaenae frons · Scotia · Screens passage · Segmental pediment · Seked · Semicircular arch · Semidome