JOGGLE

Joggled lintel above front door at Conisbrough Castle, Castle Hill, Conisbrough, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, ca., 1180.  Constructed by fifth Earl of Surrey, Hamelin Plantagenet, half brother of King Henry II.

Joggle, Joggling:  Masons’ terms for joining two stones in such a way as to prevent them from slipping or sliding, by means of a notch in one and a corresponding projection in the other.  It is often seen exposed on the face of a flat arch.  If a joggle is concealed, it is called a ‘secret joggle.’

 

Turbah al-Farnathîyah, Damascus, exterior, joggled relieving arch, ca. 1224. Mausoleum for Hanbalî shaykh and ascetic, `Alî al-Farnathî.

NOTE:  Were I to psychoanalyze myself, I would say that posting these  images indicates a strong desire for coolness and stability, qualities I find are in short supply these days.   But I don't go in for that sort of thing.

The words “joggle” and “joggling” suggest rough, forceful motion, however.  Odd.

Architectural definition excerpted from The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture by John Fleming, Hugh Honour and Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, London, Penguin Books, 1966.

LA BADOERA (PALLADIO)

His villas show no similar process of development.   In the 1550s he evolved a formula for the ideal villa – a central block of ruthlessly symmetrical plan, developed externally with a portico and continued by long wings of farm buildings, either extended horizontally or curved forward in quadrants, as at La Badoera (c. 1550 – 1560) and linking the villa with the surrounding landscape.


       --  From The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture

Beauty will result from the form and the correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with regard to each other, and of these again to the whole; that the structure may appear an entire and complete body, wherein each member agrees with the other, and all necessary to compose what you intend to form.     
  

       -- Andrea Palladio, 1570:  I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura ("The four books of architecture").

JOGGLE

Joggled lintel above front door at Conisbrough Castle, Castle Hill, Conisbrough, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, ca., 1180.  Constructed by fifth Earl of Surrey, Hamelin Plantagenet, half brother of King Henry II.

Joggle, Joggling:  Masons’ terms for joining two stones in such a way as to prevent them from slipping or sliding, by means of a notch in one and a corresponding projection in the other.  It is often seen exposed on the face of a flat arch.  If a joggle is concealed, it is called a ‘secret joggle.’

 

Turbah al-Farnathîyah, Damascus, exterior, joggled relieving arch, ca. 1224. Mausoleum for Hanbalî shaykh and ascetic, `Alî al-Farnathî.

NOTE:  Were I to psychoanalyze myself, I would say that posting these  images indicates a strong desire for coolness and stability, qualities I find are in short supply these days.   But I don't go in for that sort of thing.

The words “joggle” and “joggling” suggest rough, forceful motion, however.  Odd.

Architectural definition excerpted from The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture by John Fleming, Hugh Honour and Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, London, Penguin Books, 1966.