Cant (architecture)

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File:Ragusa-Chiesa-Anime-Purgatorio.JPG
The Chiesa del Purgatorio, Ragusa: the facade are angled (canted) back from the centre.
File:CountyHallSideAylesbury.jpg
County Hall, Aylesbury with canted recesses

A cant in architecture is an angled (oblique-angled) line or surface that cuts off a corner.[1][2] Something with a cant is canted.

Canted façades are a typical of, but not exclusive to, Baroque architecture. The angle breaking the façade is less than a right angle, thus enabling a canted façade to be viewed as, and remain, one composition. Bay windows frequently have canted sides.[2]

A cant is sometimes synonymous with chamfer and bevel.[3]

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  1. ↑ "cant" def. 5 and 10. Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) © Oxford University Press 2009
  2. ↑ a b Template:Cite EB1911
  3. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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