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Glossary

Chip-carving: Simple geometrical patterns cut into a surface.
Choir: The part of a cathedral, monastic church or collegiate church where services are sung.
Churchwarden’s pew: An especially tall or elaborate pew for use by the churchwarden, usually placed at the west end of a church.
Ciborium: A fixed canopy over an altar, usually vaulted and supported on four columns; also called a baldacchino. Also a canopied shrine for the reserved sacrament.
Cinquecento: By Edward Walters
1853-6
(Italian): The Italian Renaissance architecture of the 16th century; also used for its 19th-century revival.
Cinquefoil: A five-lobed opening.
Cist: Stone-lined or slab-built grave.
Clachan: (Scots): A hamlet or small village; also, a village inn.
Cladding: External covering or skin applied to a structure, especially a framed building.
Clapboarding: The North American term for weatherboarding, i.e. wall cladding of overlapping horizontal boards.