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Aedicule Aisle altar angle Antependium arcade arch architrave Baluster beam block Bolection braces building buttress canopy capital carved chamber chancel chapel church classical architecture Clearstorey collar purlin collar-beam column Common rafter Communion Compound pier concave convex Corbel cornice COUNTER PITCHED Crocket crown curved cusp Cyma decorated diagonal dome Easter sepulchre elements EMBATTLED PARAPET entablature feature Fig 29b Fig 33f Fig 43b Fig 44d finial fluting FOIL frieze gable glossary gonal Hammerbeam HOODMOULD horizontal Lierne Linenfold longitudinal medieval MONU MONUMENT mullion nave Ogee opening ORDERS & Fig ornament Ovolo panel pediment pilaster Piscina polygonal PORTICO Principal rafter projecting pulpit purlins Queenpost recess ribs roll moulding Rood ROOF & Fig screen semicircular Serliana shaft slab slope Soffit spire stall Stiff-leaf stone tie-beam timber tion tomb chest tower tracery truss types usually vault vertical member Vesica piscis Vitruvian scroll volutes voussoirs wall tablet Wall-plate Wall-post Waterleaf window