Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Splayed lintel

A lintel, each end of which slants downward toward the center line of the window; often has a keystone in its center

Splay: spread or turned out

Found in Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival, styles

See also: splayed jamb ..... splayed arch ....... splayed window

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See also: Furniture: splay

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Examples from Buffalo architecture

• Illustration above: Harlow C. Curtiss House
  
  
• Birge House
  
  
• 237 Depew Ave.
  
  
• 40 North St.
  
  
• 288 Ruskin, Amherst
  
  
• 597 Elmwood Avenue
  
  
• 144 Windsor Ave
  
  
• The Midway, 477 Delaware Ave.
  
  
• Hull House

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