Leaded Window A window decorated by artistic inserts of lead.
Lintel A horizontal crosspiece over an opening.
Leaded window - A window composed of small panes, usually diamond-shaped or rectangular, held in place by narrow strips of cast lead.
Lintel - A horizontal beam over an opening in a wall that carries the weight of the structure above.
Cames - The lead bars in leaded windows.
Carbonation - a natural process affecting the outer layer of concrete. Metal reinforcement within that layer is liable to early corrosion, with consequent fracturing of the concrete in some cases.
In a windowless room in his basement can be found a selection of leaded windows, lunettes and handcrafted doors waiting to be placed in a good home. These are refugees of the Home Improvement Craze.
leaded [ˈlɛdɪd] adj leaded windows → vetrate fpl (artistiche)leaded [ˈlɛdɪd] adj leaded windows → vetrate fpl (artistiche) ...
Stained glass roundel: Circular disk of stained glass in a leaded window
Roundel windows are often called bull's eye, oculus, oeil-de-boeuf, oxeye or circular light
Some roundels look like the bottom of a bottle ...
Quarry or quarrel - A small, usually diamond-shaped pane, or a square one placed diagonally, with which medieval leaded windows were glazed. The term can also applied to any small quadrangular opening in the tracery of a window.
LEADS (LEAD CAMES)
Strips of lead used to hold the panes of glass of a LEADED window.
LECTERN
A reading desk in a church for the reading of lessons.
 See also: Decorated, Floor, Architecture, Frieze, Brick
  
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