History of Architecture Practice Test

Leafed ornament refers to vegetal motifs—leaves carved into decorative details. In architecture, these leaf patterns are most at home on mouldings, the decorative profiles that run along surfaces like door surrounds, window frames, cornices, and architraves. The leaf forms, such as acanthus or palmettes, enrich the moulding itself and are a hallmark of this type of ornament. Tracery is the intricate stonework in Gothic windows, not a leaf decoration on mouldings. Presbytery is a church’s workspace or liturgical area, and pantry is a storage room. So leafed ornament is best understood as a feature of mouldings.