battlement
- embattled parapets have regular indentations crenelated as in a castle wall
- bestiary
- collection of beasts
- botonny
- Cross having each arm terminated in three buds like a trefoil
- buttress
- A mass of masonry projecting from or built against a wall to give additional strength - to counteract the lateral thrust of an arch, roof or vault
- celure
- The panelled and adorned part of a wagon roof above the rood or altar
- clerestory
- The upper stage of the main walls above the aisle rooves pierced by windows
- cornice
- The top projecting section of an entablature
- crocket
- decorative hook-like spur of stone carved in various leaf shapes and projecting at regular intervals from the angle of the spires, pinnacles, canopies and gables
- finial
- A formal ornament at the top of a canopy, gable or pinnacle. A decorative motif in the form of a small gable as on a buttress* above a niche
- merlon
- Raised portion between sections of battlements
- mullion
- Vertical member between the casements or panes of a window
- parclose
- Screen enclosing a chapel and separating it from the main body of the church so as to exclude non-worshippers
- paterae
- Small, flat circular or oval ornament often decorated with acanthus leaves or rose petals
- perpendicular
- Period of gothic architecture 1370-1550 characterised by large windows with light vertical panel-like tracery often strengthened by transoms
- pinnacle
- Small turret - like termination crowning spires
- purlin
- Horizontal longitudinal timber
- pyx
- Receptacle destined to contain the reserved host
- rood
- Saxon word for cross or crucifix - set at the east end of nave fixed to a special beam stretching from respond to respond of the chancel arch
- rood screen
- A screen below the rood set across east end of nave and shutting off the chancel
- spandrel
- Triangular space between the side of an arch, and the horizontal drawn from the level of its apex and the vertical of its springing
- string course
- A continuous horizontal band of stone or bricks set in the surface of an exterior wall, usually moulded
- transom
- Horizontal bar of stone or wood across the opening of a window or across a panel