2022年2月13日 · The term ‘Caernarfon lintel or arch’ comes from the use at Edward I’s Caernarfon Castle of the frequent use of passage doorways with shouldered lintels sitting on convex corbels. Edward’s castle at Caernarfon was started in 1283. These doorways also at exist at Wells Cathedral, both within the Cathedral itself and in the Bishop’s Palace.

2022年9月14日 · A fallen marble lintel discovered on the Aegean island of Lesbos is carved with the sole known representation of the medieval castle of Agios Theodoros. The lintel was unearthed in an excavation of the foundations of the Byzantine gate it once topped near the castle’s southeastern sea wall.

The Castle of Lindoso (Portuguese: Castelo de Lindoso) is a medieval castle in the civil parish of Lindoso, municipality of Ponte da Barca, in the Portuguese district of Viana do Castelo. It is classified as a National Monument.

2022年9月14日 · A 3.50-metre-long marble lintel found during an excavation near the foundations of the Byzantine gate of the castle of Agioi Theodoroi and linked to the ancient city-state of Antissa, one of the ancient Aeolian city-states of the island of Lesvos, is leading to a revision of the island’s late Byzantine history.

A lintel or lintol is a type of beam (a horizontal structural element) that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces. It can be a decorative architectural element, or a combined ornamented/structural item.

This is a carved lintel stone above the main doorway of Kilchurn Castle in the Scottish Highlands. - Kilchurn Castle Lintel - 3D model by martin.duffy

Lintels are horizontal beams that run across the top of wall openings, such as doors and windows. They transfer the load of the wall above to the sides of the opening. We are all familiar with the re-enforced concrete lintels of modern construction.

In medieval and later architecture, the area over a door enclosed by an arch and a lintel, often decorated with sculpture or mosaic. In architecture, the vertical element found on both sides of an opening in a wall, and supporting an arch or lintel. An arch that connects the wall piers on both sides of an interior space, up and over a stone vault.

Scope and Content Carved lintel, Foulis Castle, near Evanton, Highland Foulis Castle, in its present form, was built between 1740 and 1777 by the Munro family who had owned the land since the 13th century. Parts of its masonry contain sections of an earlier tower-house which existed by 1587.

Description Stirling Castle Joining of Lintel. Date 25/11/1969. Collection Historic Scotland Photographic Library. Catalogue Number SC 2120707. Category On-line Digital Images. Copy of 551 490/1/3/1/74/39/8 . External Reference AC/STI.1/2578/1-15. Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/2120707. File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap