Features Index (Architectural)

In the following pages we describe the many architectural features we can see in the streets of Canterbury.

Click on any feature to see a description and local examples. Entries in capital letters refer to a styles page; those in italics take you to an index page.

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A

•aedicule

•Ancaster stone

•angle buttress

•ANGLO-SAXON

•annulet

•arch index

•arched timber door

•arched transom

•arrow loop

•ART DECO

•ART NOUVEAU

•ARTS & CRAFTS

•ashlar

•aumbry

B

•balconette

•balcony

•ball flower

•bar tracery index

•bargeboard

•barley sugar column

•barrel vault

•bastion

•Bath stone

•batter

•bay window

•bee boll

•bellcote

•bench pew

•billet moulding

•blind arcade

•blind tracery

•blind window

•bond (brickwork) index

•boot scraper

•bow window

•box frame

•box pew

•bracing

•bressumer

•bricks

•broach spire

•broken pediment

•bucranium

•building stone index

•BUNGALOW

•buttress index

C

•cadaver

•Caen stone

•capital index

•carved bricks

•cartouche

•carved capital

•catslide

•cavetto

•cenotaph

•chalk

•chamfered rustication

•chapter house

•chequerwork

•chevron

•cinquefoil

•clasping buttress

•clerestory

•cloister

•close studding

•Coade stone

•cogging

•composite order

•corbel

•Corinthian capital

•cornice

•coursed flint

•crenellation

•crocket

•crocketed capital

•crown post

•crow steps

•cupola

•curvilinear tracery

•cushion capital

•cusp (Kentish cusp)

•cyma

D

•Dagger (in tracery)

•DECORATED

•decoration index

•dentils

•diagonal buttress

•diaper work

•Diocletian window

•dogtooth

•Doric capital

•dormer

•double overhang

•dragon beam

•dragon post

•drip moulding

•drop tracery

•drum tower

•Dutch gable