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Half-shaft

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Half-shaft - Roll-moulding on either side of opening.
Half-timber - The common form of medieval construction in which walls were made of a wood frame structure filled with wattle and daub.
Hall - Principal room or building in complex.

 



A pier with several shafts attached or detached, or half-shafts against the faces of it. Compound piers have angular pieces separating the rolls, clustered piers do not.

See also: Hood-mould, Arch, Bond, Church, Ashlar

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