The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Glossary
The area of a wall below window sill level, sometimes decorated with blind arcading and surmounted by a string course.
A form of decoration in which triangular fields are divided into fans of tapered fluting, found on impost blocks and capitals, commonly in Herefordshire, as here on an impost at Tarrington.
A round arch with a flattened head.
A repetitive geometric surface decoration composed of small lozenges or squares.
An ornament consisting of a series of four-pointed stars raised pyramidally.
A pilaster behind a half-column and wider than it.
Conical mouldings placed end to end in a row, sometimes used to decorate the orders of an arch.
Similar to fret but made up of open triangles.