Trail:

Glossary

Timber framing
Method of construction in which the structural frame is built of interlocking timbers. In close studding the uprights (studs) are set close together, in square panel construction the main uprights (posts) and horizontals (rails) form large square or near-square compartments. The spaces are filled with non-structural material, e.g. infill of wattle and daub, lath and plaster, brickwork (known as nogging), etc. and may be covered by plaster, weatherboarding (overlapping horizontal boards), or tiles.
Tolbooth
(Scots; lit. tax booth): Tax office containing burgh council chamber and prison.
Tolsey
An exchange or market house; the Irish term is tholsel.
Tomb-chest
Chest-shaped tomb, usually of stone.
Tondo
A circular painting or relief.
Torus (plural: tori)
Large convex moulding usually used on a classical column base.
Touch
Soft black marble quarried near Tournai in Belgium.
Tourelle
Turret corbelled out from the wall.
Tower arch
Arch joining a church tower to the nave.
Tower block
A generic term for any very high multi-storey building.