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Bressummer

Architecture; General architecture

Large, horizontal beam supporting the wall above, especially in a jettied building.

Ashlar

Architecture; General architecture

Masonry of large blocks cut with even faces and square edges.

Flushwork

Architecture; General architecture

The decorative combination on the same flat plane of flint and ashlar stone. It is characteristic of mediaeval buildings, most of the survivors churches, in several areas of Southern England, but ...

The part of the entablature that projects outward from the top of the frieze in the Doric order and from the top of the frieze course of the Ionic and Corinthian orders; it forms the outer edge of ...