lantern, in Italian
or modem architec-
ture a small structure
on the top of a dome,

or ■ in other similar
situations, for the pur-
pose of ad mittin g light,
promoting ventilation,
or for ornament, of
which those on the
top of St. Paul's Ca-
thedral, and the Rad-
cliffe Library at Ox-
ford, may be referred
to as Palladian ex-
amples. In Gothic ar-
chitecture the term is
applied to louvret on
the roofs of halls, &c,
but it usually signi-
fies a tower which has
the whole height, or a '

considerable portion of" '

the interior, open to
view from the ground,

and is lighted by an __

upper tier of win- • «-"-■

dowa: lantern-towers

Knot, Kkop-Knoppe, a bunch I Laucet, a term applied Barna-
ul Wtes or flowers forming a tiroes to the form of an arch,
boss; or the foliage una capital. and especially to that over win-

Libel, or LABBL-ifouLDiNO, a I dowa.
■Vwre or horizontal dripawne . I



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of this kind are common over the centre of cross chnrehes,
as at .York Minster, Ely Cathedral, &o. The same name
is also given to the light open erections often placed on
the tops of towers, as at Boston, Lincolnshire, and Lowick,
Northamptonshire; these sometimes have spires rising
from them, but in such cases they are less perforated with
windows, as at St. Michael's Church, Coventry.
Lantenut dat Mortt occur in the churchyards on the
Continent, chiefly in Poitou; they were simply pillars
with a place for a light on the top, similar to small light-
houses, and it is not improbable that something of the
kind was adopted in the early Roman cemeteries. Some
of the Irish round towers have been supposed to be of this
nature.
