hexastyle

Then, whether the temple is to be tetrastyle, hexastyle, or octastyle, let one of these parts be taken, and it will be the module.

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

Let the front of a Doric temple, at the place where the columns are put up, be divided, if it is to be tetrastyle, into twenty-seven parts; if hexastyle, into forty-two.

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

The west front, in our Engraving, is occupied by an hexastyle portico of the Ionic order, with fluted columns.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 386, August 22, 1829 Various

It was, moreover, immeasurably superior to the classic attempts of the architects of the middle Georgian period, who, carried away by the enthusiasm awakened by the perusal of the newly-published "Antiquities" of Stuart and Revett, attempted to adapt Doric porticos, hexastyle, octostyle, etc., to modern domestic architecture.

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

We have no example of this in Rome, but at Teos in Asia Minor there is one which is hexastyle, dedicated to Father Bacchus.

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

There are considerable remains of this building, particularly those beautiful female figures called Caryatides, which support, instead of columns, three of the porticoes; besides three of the columns in the north hexastyle with the roof over these last columns, the rest of the roof of this graceful portico fell during the siege of Athens, in 1827.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

But if the building is to be systyle and monotriglyphic, let the front of the temple, if tetrastyle, be divided into nineteen and a half parts; if hexastyle, into twenty-nine and a half parts.

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

For example, there is balance between two wings of a building which are separated by some central member or link; balance between the aisles of a church on either side of the nave; balance between the sets of three columns right and left of the door in the Greek hexastyle temple.

The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker

A third method of designating or distinguishing the temples is by the number of columns in front, thus temples are called tetrastyle, hexastyle, octastyle, that is having five, six, or eight columns.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

Three narrow chambers side by side formed a cella nearly square in plan, preceded by a hexastyle porch of huge Doric, or rather Tuscan, columns arranged in three aisles, widely spaced and carrying ponderous wooden architraves.

A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890