Looking at Buildings

Glossary

Closer: A brick cut to complete a bond.
Close studding: Of a timber-framed wall: with closely set studs or vertical timbers of equal size.
Cluster block: Multi-storey flats with the individual flats arranged around a service core.
Coade stone: Ceramic artificial stone made 1769-c. 1840 in Lambeth, South London by Eleanor Coade (d. 1821) and her associates.
Cob: Walling material of clay mixed with straw. Also called pis
Coffering: Arrangement of sunken panels (coffers), square or polygonal, decorating a ceiling, vault or arch.
Cogging: A decorative course of bricks laid diagonally.
Collar or collar-beam: Horizontal transverse roof-timber connecting a pair of rafters or cruck blades, set between the apex and the wall-plate.
Collar purlin: Central roof-timber which carries collar-beams and is supported by crown-posts. Also called a crown-plate.
Collegiate: (of church seating): Arranged in confronted rows facing north and south, rather than towards the altar; so called after the chapels of the older university colleges.