Features Index (Architectural)

In the following pages we describe the many architectural features we can see in the streets of Canterbury.

Click on any feature to see a description and local examples. Entries in capital letters refer to a styles page; those in italics take you to an index page.

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A

•Ancaster stone

•angle buttress

•arched timber door

•arched transom

•ARTS & CRAFTS

B

•bar tracery index

•barley sugar column

•barrel vault

•billet moulding

•blind arcade

•blind tracery

•blind window

•bond (brickwork) index

•boot scraper

•broach spire

•broken pediment

•building stone index

•buttress index

C

•capital index

•carved bricks

•carved capital

•chamfered rustication

•chapter house

•clasping buttress

•close studding

•composite order

•Corinthian capital

•coursed flint

•crenellation

•crocketed capital

•curvilinear tracery

•cushion capital

•cusp (Kentish cusp)

D

•Dagger (in tracery)

•decoration index

•diagonal buttress

•Diocletian window

•Doric capital

•double overhang

•drip moulding

•drop tracery

E

•EARLY ENGLISH

•Easter sepulchre

•egg and dart moulding

•engaged column

•English bond

F

•flared header

•Flemish bond

•Flemish gable (Dutch gable)

•Flemish garden bond

•flint (index)

•flying buttress

•foliate head

•four-centred arch

•full pediment

G

•geometric tracery

•GOTHIC REVIVAL

•Greek revival

H

•hanging tile

•hatched work (wall)

•herringbone work

I

•intersecting tracery

•Ionic capital

•iron lettering

J

K

•Kent peg tiles

•Kentish ragstone

•Kentish tracery

•knapped flint

L

•lancet window

•leaded lights

•lierne rib vaulting

•long and short work

•lotus bud capital

•louvred shutters

M

•machicolation

•mathematical tiles

•moulded bricks

•moulding index

N

O

•open pediment

•Opus Alexandrinum

•orders index

•oriel window

P

•panel tracery

•parchment weave

•PERPENDICULAR

•perpendicular tracery

•plate tracery

•Portland stone

•Purbeck marble

Q

R

•rail (in wainscot)

•rectilinear tracery

•reticulated tracery

•roll moulding

S

•sawtooth (brickwork)

•scissor brace

•scroll pediment

•squared flint

•stepped gable

•strainer arch

•stretcher bond

•string course

T

•terracotta work

•thermal window

•tierceron rib vaulting

•TIMBER FRAMED

•tracery index

•’Tudor’ window

•tunnel vault

U

V

•Venetian window

•vermiculated

W

•wall lettering

•Wealden house

•weather boarding

•weaver window

•window index

X

Y

Z

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