Scaffolding - The temporary wooden frame work built next to a wall to support both workers and materials.
Scale - Carving resembling overlapping fish scales.
Scallop - Carved in a series of semi-circles.
the wooden scaffolding that was set up so a true arch could be made.
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The adoption of the French scheme of a structural framework, the walls being no longer of masonry, but of glass set in a thin scaffolding of stone mullions, was at last adopted, ...
centring: temporary wooden scaffolding on which an arch or vault rests until the mortar has set.
chancel: east end of a church containing the altar; in a large church, east of the choir; in a smaller one, east of the nave or crossing.
Wood was essential in the construction of Ottoman buildings and was used for the centring of vaults and domes, for tie-beams and as scaffolding.
Postmodernist architect Michael Graves surrounded the monument with distinctive scaffolding made from 37 miles of aluminum tubing. The scaffolding took four months to erect and became a tourist attraction in itself.
Holes in a wall to receive putlogs, the horizontal timbers which support scaffolding boards; sometimes not filled after construction is complete. Also called putholes or putlock holes.Putto (plural: putti)Small naked boy.
necessary for the preservation of a listed building, or unlisted building in a conservation area, The works must be the minimum necessary to ensure survival of the building ie a tarpaulin over a hole in the roof, temporary support scaffolding etc.
It locks in the voussoirs before the centering scaffolding can be removed. (p. 22 in the window arches, p. 28 - left window arch, p.38-first floor arches, p. 42 - ornamented keystones in all arches).
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beam inserted into a special hole in a great tower, gatehouse or curtain to support hoarding, or as scaffolding for building or repairs
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Ledger - A horizontal board forming the top rail of a simple fence, the hand-rail to a balustrade or the like; also any of the flooring boards of a scaffolding.
 See also: Floor, House, Tower, Architecture, Church
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