Cant (architecture)

A cant in architecture is an angled (oblique-angled) line or surface that cuts off a corner.

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.

The Chiesa del Purgatorio , Ragusa : the facade are angled (canted) back from the centre.
County Hall, Aylesbury with canted recesses