Flushwork
- Sometimes flint is used with dressed stone to form patterns or inscriptions, the result of which is known as flushwork.
Flushwork - the decorative combination on the same flat plane of flint and ashlar stone. It is characteristic of medieval buildings, most of the survivors churches, in several areas of Southern England, but especially East Anglia.
FLUSHWORK: the use of flint and dressed stone to produce decorative patterns commonly of blank arcading, worked in a single plane. FLUTING: a decoration formed of parallel concave mouldings (cf. REEDING).
flushwork A decorative technique for exterior walls, in which designs are picked out in white stone against a background of flint cobbles.
Bar tracery with uninterrupted flowing curves, typical of the 14th century; also called curvilinear tracery.FlushworkTrimmed (knapped) flint used with dressed stone to form patterns.Fluting ...
 See also: Thrust, Tracery, Chapel, Church, Flying buttress
  
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